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Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Positive psychology.
Optimism.
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Seligman, Martin E. P.
Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Positive psychology.
Optimism.
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The hope circuit : a psychologist's journey from helplessness to optimism /
Martin
E
.P.
Seligman
.
by
Seligman
,
Martin
E
.
P
.
PublicAffairs, 2018.
Call #:
150.92 S465h
Subjects
Seligman
,
Martin
E
.
P
.
Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Positive psychology.
Optimism.
ISBN:
9781610398732 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Psychologist's journey from helplessness to optimism
From helplessness to optimism
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
vii, 432
p
. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-413) and index.
Contents:
Part 1. Beginning -- Lightning bolt -- Childhood -- Youth (1955-1960) -- Miseducation (1960-1964) -- Twitmyer's breakthrough -- Learned helplessness (1964-1967) -- A clinical psychologist (1967) -- Part 2. Becoming -- Cornell (1967-1969) -- Penn Psychiatry (1970-1972) -- Tenured (1972) -- Tessitura (1973-1974) -- England (1975) -- Center for Advanced Study (1978-1979) -- Depression -- Master blaster (1980-1983) -- Part 3. Being -- Mandy (1988-) -- Learned optimism (1989-1993) -- APA (1995-1999) -- Inventing positive psychology (1998-2001) -- Good character (2000-2004) -- Part 4. Flourishing -- Sixty (2002) -- Positivity and its critics (2001-2011) -- Positive education (1990-) -- CIA (2002) -- Army (2008-2017) -- Physical health (2007-2017) -- Part 5. Looking into the future -- Homo prospectus (2008-2016) -- The hope circuit (2016) -- Turning the world.
Summary:
"One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When
Martin
E
.
P
.
Seligman
first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the science of how past trauma creates present symptoms. Today, thanks in large part to
Seligman
's Positive Psychology movement, it is ever more focused not on what cripples life, but on what makes life worth living--with profound consequences for our mental health. In this wise and eloquent memoir, spanning the most transformative years in the history of modern psychology,
Seligman
recounts how he learned to study optimism--including a life-changing conversation with his five-year-old daughter. He tells the human stories behind some of his major findings, like CAVE, an analytical tool that predicts election outcomes (with shocking accuracy) based on the language used in campaign speeches, the international spread of Positive Education, the launch of the US Army's huge resilience program, and the canonical studies that birthed the theory of learned helplessness--which he now reveals was incorrect. And he writes at length for the first time about his own battles with depression at a young age."--Inside dust jacket.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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2
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