Authentic Happiness : Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting F...
ISBN: 9780743222983 | 0743222989
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Pub. Date: 12/30/2003
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In this national bestseller -- Martin Seligman's most stimulating, persuasive book to date -- the acclaimed author ofLearned Optimismintroduces yet another revolutionary idea. Drawing on groundbreaking scientific research, Seligman shows how Positive Psychology is shifting the profession's paradigm away from its narrow-minded focus on pathology, victimology, and mental illness to positive emotion and mental health. Happiness, studies show, is not the result of good genes or luck. It can be cultivated by identifying and nurturing traits that we ... MORE
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Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., is the Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, the director of the Positive Psychology Network, and former president of the American Psychological Association. Among his twenty books are Learned Optimism and The Optimistic Child.
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