Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
Psychology
Christopher Peterson
University of Michigan
November 7, 2007
• Seligman (1998)
• Ancestors
• Athenian philosophers
• Lao-Tsu and Confucius
• Witmer
• Rogers and Maslow
• Jahoda
• Empirical research
• Quality of life and subjective well-being
• Primary prevention and wellness
promotion
• Agency and self-efficacy
• Giftedness and multiple intelligences
• What happened?
• Positivism got in the way
• Basic versus applied schism
• World War II and clinical psychology
What is Positive Psychology?
• Again, positive psychology is an
umbrella term describing the
scientific study of what makes life
most worth living
• Positive psychologists concern
themselves with
• Positive experiences
• Positive traits
• Positive relationships
• Positive institutions
• Positive psychology does not
replace business-as-usual
psychology
• Positive psychology intends to
complement and extend a problem-
focused psychology
Questions, Quarrels, Quibbles …
and Necessary Qualifications
• Comparison to business-as-
usual therapies?
• Boundary conditions?
• What about weaknesses?
• How light-handed is positive
therapy?
• Why do we live as we do?
Any Final Matters to Clean Up?
Thank You