Robert J. Waldinger (born 1951) is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Zen priest.
He is a part-time professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever conducted.
[5] Waldinger writes about scientific approaches to healthy human development and is the founding director of the Lifespan Research Foundation, which presents the insights of lifespan research to the general public.
[8][9] He directs a teaching program in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
[10] On January 12, 2023, with Marc Schulz, Waldinger released The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.