Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment - Softcover

Seligman, Martin

 
9781857883299: Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1857883292 ISBN 13: 9781857883299
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject real joy into their lives.

In Authentic Happiness, he describes the 24 strengths and virtues unique to the human psyche. Each of us, it seems, has at least five of these attributes, and can build on them to identify and develop to our maximum potential. By incorporating these strengths - which include kindness, originality, humour, optimism, curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity - into our everyday lives, he tells us, we can reach new levels of optimism, happiness and productivity.

Authentic Happiness provides a variety of tests and unique assessment tools to enable readers to discover and deploy those strengths at work, in love and in raising children. By accessing the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy.

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About the Author

Martin Seligman PhD, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Positive Psychology Network, gave the Centennial address to the British Psychological Society in 2002 and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Cardiff. A former President of the American Psychological Association, he has written over 20 books including the bestselling Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness and in 2009 was awarded the British Academy's Wiley Prize in Psychology. He is widely considered the pre-eminent expert on applied psychology in the world.

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Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1857883292
ISBN 13 
9781857883299
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
336

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