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Adaptation to Life

George E. Vaillant

Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research wa...

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It was mentioned in passing, as a book where the author learned about suppression as a defense mechanism, and the story of a young man who used suppression as a defense mechanism to deal with his fear while in a sinking submarine.

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The story is from psychiatrist George Valiant's 1977 book Adaptation to Life.

— Episode: 95. What’s So Bad About Denial?

Episode: 95. What’s So Bad About Denial?

It was mentioned in passing, as a book where the author learned about suppression as a defense mechanism, and the story of a young man who used suppression as a defense mechanism to deal with his fear while in a sinking submarine.

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The story is from psychiatrist George Valiant's 1977 book Adaptation to Life.

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