Flow
Subtitle: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: March 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060920777
First sentence: TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness.
Table of contents: title: Preface, xi; title: . 1 Happiness Revisited, 1; title: Introduction, 1; title: Overview, 5; title: The Roots of Discontent, 8; title: The Shields of Culture, 10; title: Reclaiming Experience, 16; title: Paths of Liberation, 20; title: . 2 The Anatomy of Consciousness, 23; title: The Limits of Consciousness, 28; title: Attention as Psychic Energy, 30; title: Enter the Self, 33; title: Disorder in Consciousness: Psychic Entropy, 36; title: Order in Consciousness: Flow, 39; title: Complexity and the Growth of the Self, 41; title: . 3 Enfoyment and The Quality of Life, 43; title: Pleasure and ENjoyment, 45; title: The Elements of Enjoyment, 48; title: The Autoteli Experience, 67; title: . 4 The Conditions of Flow, 71; title: Flow Activities, 72; title: Flow and Culture, 77; title: The Autotelic Personality, 83; title: The People of Flow, 90; title: . 5 The Body in Flow, 94; title: Higher, Faster, Stronger, 96; title: The Joys of Movement, 99; title: Sex as Flow, 100; title: The Ultimate control: Yoga and the Martial Arts, 103; title: Flow through the Senses: The Joys of Seeing, 106; title: The Flow of Music, 108; title: The Joys of Tasting, 113; title: . 6 The Flow of Thought, 117; title: The Mother of Science, 120; title: The Rules of the Games of the Mind, 124; title: The Play of Words, 128; title: Befriending Clio, 132; title: The Delights of Science, 134; title: Loving Wisdom, 138; title: Amateurs and Professionals, 139; title: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning, 141; title: . 7 Work as Flow, 143; title: Autotelic Workers, 144; title: Autotelic Jobs, 152; title: The Paradox of Work, 157; title: The Waste of Free Time, 162; title: . 8 Enjoying Solitude and Other People, 164; title: The Conflict between eing Alone and Being with Others, 165; title: The Pain of Loneliness, 168; title: Taming Solitude, 173; title: Flow and the Family, 175; title: Enjoying Friends, 185; title: The Wider Community, 190; title: . 9 Cheating Chaos, 192; title: Tragedies Transformed, 193; title: Coping with Stress, 198; title: The Power of Dissipative Structures, 201; title: The Autotelic Self: A Summary, 208; title: . 10 The Making of Meaning, 214; title: What Meaning Means, 215; title: Cultivating Purpose, 218; title: Forging Resolve, 223; title: Recovering Harmony, 227; title: The Unification of Meaning in Life Themes, 230; title: Notes, 241; title: References, 281