Part I: Matisse
The Wisdom of the Ego,
by George E. Vaillant,
Harvard University Press (1993)
Cover illustration:
“Icarus,” from Jazz, by Henri Matisse
Publisher’s description of author:
George E. Vaillant is Professor of Psychiatry;
Director of the Study of Adult Development,
Harvard University Health Services;
and Director of Research in
the Division of Psychiatry,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
“This is a remarkable synthesis of the best current thinking on ego psychology as well as a many-faceted picture of what Robert White would call ‘lives in progress.’ It makes on its own not only a highly innovative contribution to ego psychology but an equally original and impressive contribution to longitudinal research. A remarkable and many-faceted work.”
— The late George W. Goethals
of Harvard University
Part II:
The Hospital
Cached from http://bostonist.com/2007/12/01/boston_blotter_164.php
December 1, 2007Boston Blotter: More on Harvard Student Found Dead
A Facebook group named “In Memory of John Edwards” has already been established. * Other reports say the body was found at about 11 PM on Thursday, Nov. 29– the presumed date of Edwards’s death. Edwards was said to have conducted stem cell research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. |
–John Edwards, the Harvard sophomore whose body was
Part III:
Down to Earth
The reviewer in Icarus, Part I, above,
Dr. Goethals, was my teacher in a
1960-61 freshman seminar at Harvard.
He admired the work of
Harry Stack Sullivan.
The cover of the Sullivan book below
may serve to illustrate yesterday’s
“Plato’s Horses” remarks.
The ego defenses of today’s
Harvard students seem to need some
strengthening. Perhaps Vaillant, Sullivan,
and the philosophies of Pirsig and of Plato
discussed in yesterday’s entry
may be of use in this regard.
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