Robert Waldinger
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Biography
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Robert Waldinger is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. The Study has studied the lives of 2 groups of men for over 75 years. Dr. Waldinger is now beginning a study of the more than 2000 children of these men to examine how childhood experience affects midlife health and wellbeing.
Dr. Waldinger received his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books: Psychiatry for Medical Students (American Psychiatric Press, 1984, 1991, 1997), and Effective Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients: Case Studies (Macmillan, 1987). He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he teaches Harvard medical students and psychiatry residents, and he is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also a Zen priest.
Medical Education
- MD, Harvard Medical School
- MD, Harvard Medical School/ BWH
- Residency, McLean Hospital - Clinical Trainees
American Board Certifications
- Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Videos
Robert Waldinger shares Secret to Happiness | Robert J. Waldinger | TEDxBoston
The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED
Robert Waldinger: The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Happier Together - with Professor Robert Waldinger
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