Studies
Studies are currently underway concerning adult development by Robert J. Waldinger and George Eman Vaillant at The Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Professor Robert J. Waldinger, from Boston Massachusetts, is studying a group of men who have been a part of an elaborate study for 67 years. The intention is to examine early life predictors of healthy or unhealthy aging and relationships late in life. George E. Vaillant, who has been the Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service for the last thirty five years has published is work in his books Adaptation to Life, 1977, The Wisdom of The Ego, 1993, and The Natural History of Alcoholism-Revisited, 1995. He charted adult development in 824 men and women their recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism, and personality disorder.
Other known researchers in the field of adult development, and specifically ego development, are Jane Loevinger, William Torbert, Robert Kegan, Otto Laske and Susanne Cook-Greuter. Their developmental theories have a number of key traits in common. Specifically, they describe an unfolding of human potential, they maintain that growth occurs in a sequence of stages and that later stages are only reached by going through earlier stages, world views evolve from simple to complex, and that people's stage of development influences what they notice and can influence.
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