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Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

Contents

  1. Adam Newman (2) - Rocket Scientist who illustrates repression and growing maturity
  2. Dr. Godfrey Camille (5) - Lonely physician who spent his life finding love, lifelong personality development and the ability to let love in.
  3. Art Miller (0) - Elusive high combat veteran and drama professor who found peace in Australia
  4. Two cases -
    1. Oliver Holmes (6) - Judge from an idyllic childhood who illustrates its gift to old age.
    2. Sam Lovelace (0) - Architect with a miserable childhood who illustrates its lasting curse.
    3. Algernon Young (0) - Blue collar worker from an aristocratic family - an illustration of development derailed.
  5. Five cases -
    1. Charles Boatwright (6) - Optimistic boatyard owner; a model of empathy
    2. Prof. Peter Penn (1) - College professor. A man who never quite grew up.
    3. Prof. George Bancroft (7) - College professor who illustrates the sequential steps to maturity.
    4. Dr. Eric Carey (TY) - Polio victim who achieved Eriksonian integrity in the face of an early death.
    5. Dr. Carlton Tarryton (TY) - A physician who failed to reach career consolidation.
  6. Four cases -
    1. John Adams (6) - A lawyer with three divorces and a happy long fourth marriage.
    2. Fredrick Chipp (7) - A school teacher from a warm childhoood who created a lifelong happy family.
    3. Dr. Carlton Tarryton (TY) - A physician with four unhappy marriages.
    4. Eben Frost (7) - A mentally healthy lawyer who lacked the gift or desire for intimacy.
  7. two cases -
    1. Daniel Garrick (3) - An actor , a late bloomer, who illustrtes the importance of old age of good (subjective and objective ) physical health.
    2. Alfred Paine (0) - A manager with no ability to let love in. he illustrates aging in the absence of good health.
  8. 2 cases
    1. Dylan Bright (TY): An English professor gifted in sublimation.
    2. Francis DeMille (2): A businessman. He illustrates personality development from repression and dissociation to maturity.
  9. 2 cases
    1. James O Neill (TY) - An economics professor who illustrates the destructive power of alcoholic denial.
    2. Bill Loman (2) - Francis Lowell - An aristocratic lawyer who provides simultaneous illustrations of alcoholism as voluntary career and alcoholism as debilitating disease.
  10. Two cases -
    1. Bert Hoover (TY) - A study conservative
    2. Oscar Weil (TY) - A study liberal
  11. Prof Ernest Clovis (3) - A french professor who illustrates both sublimation and guardianship