Dr. George E Vaillant M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1249 Boylston St 3rd Floor Boston MA, 02215About
Dr. George Vaillant is a psychiatrist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Vaillant is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Vaillant diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Vaillant may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Vaillant treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1959
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A systematic review of the mortality of depression.
- Delinquency and mortality: A 50-year follow-up study of 1,000 delinquent and nondelinquent boys.
- Social/emotional intelligence and midlife resilience in schoolboys with low tested intelligence.
- Sociopathy as a human process. A viewpoint.
- Natural history of male psychological health. III. Empirical dimensions of mental health.
- Successful aging.
- Adaptive mental mechanisms. Their role in a positive psychology.
- Soundings: a psychological equivalent of medical percussion.
- Healthy aging among inner-city men.
- Natural history of male psychological health. V. The relation of choice of ego mechanisms of defense to adult adjustment.
- A 60-year follow-up of alcoholic men.
- Mental health.
- John Haslam on early infantile autism.
- Paired episodes of manic-depressive illness within a single family.
- Tuberculosis: an historical analogy to schizophrenia.
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