Flourish
Subtitle: a visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being
By: Martin E.P. Seligman
Edition: Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781439190760
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Satisfaction; Positive psychology; Well-being
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: A New Positive Psychology; title: What is well-being?; title: The birth of a new theory; title: The original theory: authentic happiness; title: From authentic happiness theory to well-being theory; title: Well-being theory; title: The elements of well-being; title: Kindness exercise; title: Flourishing as the goal of positive psychology; title: Creating your happiness: positive psychology exercises that work; title: The gratitude visit; title: Can well-being be changed?; title: What-went-well exercise; title: Positive psychology interventions and cases; title: Signature strengths; title: Positive psychotherapy; title: The dirty little secret of drugs and therapy; title: Cure versus symptom relief; title: The 65 percent barrier; title: Active, constructive responding; title: Dealing with negative emotions; title: A new approach to cure; title: Applied psychology versus basic psychology: problems versus puzzles; title: Wittgenstein, Popper, and Penn; title: Teaching well-being: the magic of MAPP; title: The first MAPP; title: Ingredients of applied positive psychology; title: Intellectually challenging applicable content; title: Personal and professional transformation; title: Transformations; title: Called to positiv