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Robert J. Waldinger
American
Psychologist
Born:
1951
Health
Life
People
Relationships
Work
You
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The good life is built with good relationships.
Robert J. Waldinger
Life
Good
Good Life
Relationships
Good Relationships
Built
Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.
Robert J. Waldinger
Parenting
Relationships
Reflected
May
Poor
Sibling
A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
Robert J. Waldinger
Health
Marriage
Smoking
Cigarette
Physical
Physical Health
Troubled
Hazardous
Being human means there's a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we're all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.
Robert J. Waldinger
Me
World
Our
Minds
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Divide
Look
Still
Years
Human
Taught
Being
Wherever
Being Human
Them
Us
Means
Naturally
Each
More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones.
Robert J. Waldinger
Half
Doctors
Complaints
More
Absent
Troubled
Emotional
Most
Than
Often
Patients
Loved
Loved Ones
Origin
Connections
Include
Bring
Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.
Robert J. Waldinger
Work
People
Impossible
Those
Out
Entire
Entire Lives
Almost
Pictures
Make
How
Get
Them
Work Out
Choices
Lives
Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.
Robert J. Waldinger
Life
Creative
Memory
People
Sometimes
Remember
Past
About
Vast
Know
Most
Hindsight
Forget
Human
Anything
Happens
Us
Asking
Human Life
Downright
Amount
It's the quality of your relationships that matters.
Robert J. Waldinger
Quality
Matters
Relationships
Your
Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it's not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can't get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things.
Robert J. Waldinger
Life
Work
You
Cancer
First
Important
Understanding
Research
Else
Our
Way
Projects
Kind
Lays
Alzheimer
Go
Cure
Get
Human
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Urgent
Might
Human Life
Actionable
Foundation
Things
Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.
Robert J. Waldinger
Government
Time
Health
Struggle
People
Mental Health
Care
Difficulties
Despite
Focused
Mental
Only
Fact
Emotional
Push
Over
Industry
Health Care
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Government Agencies
Quick
Agencies
Skills
Special
Companies
Many
Using
Brief
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Industry
Far from the stereotype that psychodynamic treatments are appropriate only for the 'worried well,' a growing body of evidence points to their efficacy in dealing with the most pressing mental health problems of our time.
Robert J. Waldinger
Time
Health
Mental Health
Problems
Our
Worried
Appropriate
Evidence
Our Time
Pressing
Mental
Only
Points
Stereotype
Most
Well
Health Problems
Dealing
Efficacy
Far
Body
Growing
Treatments
Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.
Robert J. Waldinger
Parenting
You
Quality
Add
Relationships
Once
About
Taken
Knowing
Account
Information
Much
Sibling
It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of your close relationships that matters.
Robert J. Waldinger
Relationship
You
Quality
Matters
Relationships
Friends
Close
Committed
Just
Whether
Your
Number
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