作者:
Martin E·P·Seligman 出版社: Nicholas Brealey Publishing 副标题: A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being - and How To Achieve Them 出版年: 2011-5-5 页数: 408 定价: GBP 14.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9781857885699
From the author of the International Bestseller Authentic Happiness. In this groundbreaking book, one of the world's foremost academic psychologists - and founder of the Positive Psychology movement - offers a new theory on what makes people flourish and how to truly get the most out of life. Flourish is a fascinating evolution of Seligman's thinking, and offers inspiring stor...
From the author of the International Bestseller Authentic Happiness. In this groundbreaking book, one of the world's foremost academic psychologists - and founder of the Positive Psychology movement - offers a new theory on what makes people flourish and how to truly get the most out of life. Flourish is a fascinating evolution of Seligman's thinking, and offers inspiring stories of Positive Psychology in action - innovative schools that add resilience to their curricula; a new theory of success and intelligence; and evidence on how positive physical health can turn medicine on its head. Building on his game-changing work on optimism, motivation and character, Seligman shows us how to flourish and bring well-being into both our personal lives and society as a whole. Wellbeing is a way of thinking that the new coalition government is taking very seriously indeed.
Session 1: The absence or lack of positive resources (positive emotions, character strengths, and meaning) can cause and maintain depression and can create an empty life.
Homework: The client writes a one-page (roughly three hundred words) “positive introduction,” in which she tells a concrete story showing her at her best and illustrating how she used her highest character strengths.
Session 2: The client identifies his character strengths from the positive introduction and discusses situations in which these character strengths have helped him previously.
Homework: The client completes the VIA questionnaire online to identify his character strengths.
Session 3: We focus on specific situations in which character strengths may facilitate cultivation of pleasure, engagement, and meaning.... (查看原文)
“The theory in Authentic Happiness is that happiness could be analyzed into three different elements that we choose for their own sakes: positive emotion, engagement, and meaning. And each of these elements is better defined and more measurable than happiness. The first is positive emotion; what we feel: pleasure, rapture, ecstasy, warmth, comfort, and the like. An entire life led successfully ”
“around this element, I call the “pleasant life.”
The second element, engagement, is about flow: being one with the music, time stopping, and the loss of self-consciousness during an absorbing activity. I refer to a life lived with these aims as the “engaged life.” Engagement is different, even opposite, from positive emotion; for if you ask people who are in flow what they are thinking and feeling... (查看原文)
0 有用 雪地里的水煮蛋 2013-03-07 03:40:56
极其喜欢这种严格论证的书。
0 有用 goldenwalden 2013-04-23 13:18:46
positive emotions, engagement, meaning,
0 有用 丸子(^.^)v 2018-11-09 14:59:35
amazon上的介绍是 This book will help you flourish! 感觉是鸡汤中的战斗机
0 有用 Vanina Vanini 2018-02-10 23:23:02
post-industrial society needs positive psychology