Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your

Description: A groundbreaking look at how readers can improve the world around them and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy. Martin Seligman, PhD, is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Positive Psychology Center, and former president of the American Psychological Association. He received his BA in philosophy from Princeton University, and his PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and holds ten honorary doctorates. He was named the most influential psychologist in the world by Academic Influence. Along with writing for numerous scholarly publications and appearing in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and many others, he is also the author and coauthor of over thirty books, including Flourish, Authentic Happiness, and Tomorrowmind. Contents Preface Part I: Positive Emotion 1. Positive Feeling and Positive Character 2. How Psychology Lost Its Way and I Found Mine 3. Why Bother to Be Happy? 4. Can You Make Yourself Lastingly Happier? 5. Satisfaction about the Past 6. Optimism about the Future 7. Happiness in the Present Part II: Strength and Virtue 8. Renewing Strength and Virtue 9. Your Signature Strengths Part III: In the Mansions of Life 10. Work and Personal Satisfaction 11. Love 12. Raising Children 13. Reprise and Summary 14. Meaning and Purpose Appendix: Terminology and Theory Acknowledgments Endnotes Index

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