Mick Power

Understanding Happiness (eBook, ePUB)

A critical review of positive psychology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the claims of the positive psychology movement, including the link between happiness and health, and argues that resilience, adaptability in the face of adversity, and psychological flexibility are more achievable as life goals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317399841
• Artikelnr.: 47511392

Autorenporträt

Mick Power is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Clinical Programmes at the National University of Singapore. He has previously worked in universities and hospitals in London, Tromsø, Milan, Beijing, Edinburgh and Lisbon. For many years he has worked with the World Health Organization to develop a measure of quality of life, the WHOQOL, that is now in widespread use throughout the world.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Pursuit of Happiness 2. Love and Mania: Disorders of Happiness 3.
The Power of Negative Emotions 4. The Happiness Industry 5. A Timeshare in
Paradise: Of Gods and the Afterlife 6. Positive Psychology, Health, and
Illness 7. Transforming the Self