Positive psychology explores what enables individuals and societies to flourish. It examines how people can cultivate happiness, strength, and resilience, and ultimately live a fulfilling, meaningful ...

You might have experienced the following scenario: sitting with a group of friends, when someone raises the topic of positive psychology. A number of people then respond with sarcastic comments such ...

Want to increase your confidence and joy? It doesn't come from fixing what’s wrong, but from reclaiming what’s already right.

What can a therapist who uses positive psychology help with? Positive psychology can help a person with their negative thoughts and behaviours. The principles are useful for day-to-day concerns such ...

If you've ever read anything about positive psychology, you've likely come across names like Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who hailed in the discipline in 2000. But the roots of ...

Our quest for happiness is often misguided. This is the conclusion that Judith Mangelsdorf, Germany’s pioneering professor of positive psychology, reached while helping individuals across Europe lead ...

This post is in response to Bringing Awe Into the Equation By Bob Edelstein L.M.F.T., M.F.T In this article, I propose that despite the nay-saying 1) positive psychology is justifiably a branch of ...

In the decades following World War II, psychology as a science made notable strides in diagnosing and treating pathologies. While the contribution of psychological research on mental illness and ...

As the field of psychiatry—which uses medical and biological methods to treat mental disorders—has largely overtaken psychotherapy, which relies on non-biological approaches such as conversation and ...

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. — Emily Bronte I just finished reading a terrific book written by Susan Cain (2012), who also ...

Since the introduction of positive psychology by Professor Martin Seligman at the turn of the century there has been an explosion of research published, interventions designed and case studies ...