Robert Waldinger, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, co-director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, and co-founder of the Lifespan Research Foundation
Robert Waldinger, MD (FAN ’23), is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Zen priest. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital, and cofounder of the Lifespan Research Foundation.
The Study has documented the lives of 724 men for over 80 years and now studies their Baby Boomer children to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and wellbeing in middle age.
Dr. Waldinger is the co-author, with Marc Schulz, Ph.D., of The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.
Dr. Waldinger is the founding director of the Lifespan Research Foundation, dedicated to bringing the insights of lifespan research to the general public. His 2016 TEDxBeaconStreet Talk, “What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness,” has over 50 million views, placing it in the top ten of all TED Talks.
Dr. Waldinger received his AB from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and he directs a psychotherapy teaching program for Harvard psychiatry residents.
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Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose (Event 1 of 2)
Award-winning journalist and bestselling author
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, co-director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, and co-founder of the Lifespan Research Foundation
The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, co-director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, and co-founder of the Lifespan Research Foundation
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School