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Understanding happiness : a critical review of positive psychology
- Title
- Understanding happiness : a critical review of positive psychology / Mick Power.
- Author
- Power, Michael J.
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 196 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "We all want to be happy, and there are plenty of people telling us how it can be achieved. The positive psychology movement, indeed, has established happiness as a scientific concept within everyone's grasp. But is happiness really something we can actively aim for, or is it simply a by-product of how we live our lives more widely? Dr. Mick Power, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Clinical Programmes at the National University of Singapore, provides a critical assessment of what happiness really means, and the evidence for how it can be increased. Arguing that negative emotions are as important to overall well-being as the sunnier sides of our disposition, the book examines many of the claims of the positive psychology movement, including the relationship between happiness and physical health, and argues that resilience, adaptability in the face of adversity, psychological flexibility, and a sense of generativity and creativity are far more achievable as life goals. This is a book that will fascinate anyone interested in positive psychology, or anyone who has ever questioned the plethora of publications suggesting that blissful happiness is 10 easy steps away"--First preliminary page.
- Alternative Title
- Positive psychology
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-186) and indexes.
- Contents
- Happiness: an overview -- Love and mania: disorders of happiness -- The power of negative emotions -- The happiness industry -- A timeshare in paradise: of gods and the afterlife -- Positive psychology, health, and illness -- Transforming the self.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5097
- ISBN
- 9781138929234
- 1138929239
- 9781138929241
- 1138929247
- LCCN
- 2015023177
- 40025553236
- OCLC
- 920672155
- Author
- Power, Michael J., author.
- Title
- Understanding happiness : a critical review of positive psychology / Mick Power.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-186) and indexes.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025553236
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5097