But the key to healthy aging is relationships, relationships, relationships.�
� George Vaillant.
One of his ballades quotes Jehan Vaillant, a composer active in Paris.
Vaillant also noted that"return-to-controlled drinking, as reported in short-term
studies, is often a mirage.".
Vaillant also noted that"return-to-controlled drinking,
as reported in short-term studies, is often a mirage.
George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting for the first
time what it is like to flourish far beyond conventional retirement.
A few years ago, the longtime director of the study, George Vaillant, was asked what he had learned from the mountains of data.
Psychiatrist George Vaillant, who led the study from 1972 to 2004,
wrote regarding this study,“The 75 years and 20 million dollars expended on the Grant Study points.
Based on Mulford's example, I actually took seriously Vaillant's proclamation that,“if treatment as we currently understand it
does not seem more effective than natural healing processes, then we need to understand these natural healing processes.”.
The most recent study, a long-term(60 year)
follow-up of two groups of alcoholic men by George Vaillant at Harvard Medical School concluded that"return
to controlled drinking rarely persisted for much more than a decade without relapse or evolution into abstinence.
In contrast, however, the results of a long-term(60-year) follow-up of two groups of alcoholic men by George Vaillant at Harvard Medical School indicated that"return
to controlled drinking rarely persisted for much more than a decade without relapse or evolution into abstinence.
In a summary to his book that deserves to
be studied as a clinical document on its own, Vaillant recited all the bromides about the disease of alcoholism,
listed the 12 steps, and intoned that“alcoholism is a disease that is highly treatable.”.
In contrast, however, the results of a long term(60 year) follow-up of two groups of alcoholic men by George Vaillant at Harvard Medical School indicated that“return
to controlled drinking rarely persisted for much more than a decade without relapse or evolution into abstinence.”[82] Vaillant also noted that“return-to-controlled drinking, as reported in short-term studies, is often a mirage.”.