American - Psychologist | 1951 -
The good life is built with good relationships.
Robert J. Waldinger
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It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.
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Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.
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A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
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We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders.
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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.
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People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.
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The fact remains that many of the most creative and innovative hypotheses that are eventually verified by empirical research are born in the consulting room out of practitioners' work with individual patients.
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When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.
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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.
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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.
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It's the quality of your relationships that matters.
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