Rate My Professor Robert Waldinger

Robert Waldinger is a part-time professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running scientific studies of adult life. He also serves as director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Waldinger received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1973, graduating summa cum laude, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1978. His research focuses on adult development, psychodynamic therapy, and factors contributing to health and well-being across the lifespan, drawing from the Harvard Study that has followed participants and their children for decades.

Waldinger is the author of numerous scientific papers and the book The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, co-authored with Marc Schulz and published in 2023. He directs a teaching program in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital and has received awards for teaching and research from the American Psychiatric Association, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He is also a Zen priest and sensei who teaches in both Sōtō and Rinzai lineages. Waldinger delivered a widely viewed TED Talk on lessons from the study of happiness. He is the founding director of the Lifespan Research Foundation.

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