Flourishing
Positive Psychology and the Life Well-lived
Published on 1. December 2002
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-1-55798-930-7 (ISBN)
Description
Psychology has made great strides in understanding mental illness, but how much has it learned about mental health? When people want to reflect upon the good life and how to live it, they turn to philosophers and novelists, not psychologists. The emerging field of positive psychology aims to redress this imbalance. In Flourishing, distinguished scholars apply scientific analyses to study the good life, expanding the scope of social and psychological research to include happiness, well-being, courage, citizenship, play, and the satisfactions of healthy work and healthy relationships. Their findings reveal that a sense of meaning and a feeling of richness emerge in life as people immerse themselves in activities, relationships, and the pursuit of intrinsically satisfying goals like overcoming adversity or serving one's community through volunteering. This provocative book will further define this evolving field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-930-7 (9781557989307)
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Content
Flourishing Under Fire: Resilience as a Prototype of Challenged Thriving-Carol Ryff and Burton Singer; Turning Points as Opportunities for Personal Growth-Elaine Wethington; Optimism and Flourishing-Chris Peterson and Edward Chang; The Constructing of Meaning through Vital Engagement-Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; Personal Goals, Life Meaning, and Virtue: Wellsprings of a Positive Life-Robert Emmons; Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships-Harry Reis and Shelly Gable; Creativity and Genius-Vincent Cassandro and Dean Simonton; Work, Play, and Eating On Making More of More Moments in Life-Amy Wrzesniewski, Paul Rozin, and Gwen Bennett; Well-Being in the Workplace: A Review of the Gallup Studies-James Harter, Frank Schmidt, and Corey L. M. Keyes; Doing Well by Doing Good: The Health Benefits of Community Participation-Jane Allyn Piliavin; Wisdom: A Meta-Heuristic Guiding the Conduct of Life-Paul Baltes and Alexandra Freund; Elevation and the Positive Psychology of Morality-Jonathan Haidt; Complete Mental Health: An Agenda for the 21st Century-Corey L. M. Keyes