Authentic Happiness - Martin Selegman - Audio Book CD
Brand New: However shrink wrapped 4 CDs abridged 4 hours - Read by John Dossett, with an introduction by the Author
In "Authentic Happiness," the bestselling writer of "Learned Optimism" introduces the revolutionary, scientifically based idea of "Positive Psychology." Positive Psychology concentrates on strengths instead of weaknesses, asserting that joy is not the outcome of superior genes or chance. Happiness is cultivated by
identifying and utilizing most strengths and traits that listeners absolutely possess — including kindness, originality,
humour, optimism, and generosity. By frequently calling upon their "signature strengths," listeners may develop all-natural buffers against misfortune and the experience of damaging emotion — elevating their lives to a fresh, more positive area.
Drawling on groundbreaking emotional analysis, Seligman shows how Positive Psychology is shifting the profession's paradigm away from its narrow-minded focus on pathology, victimology, and mental disease to positive emotion, virtue and strength, and positive organizations. Our signature
strengths is nurtured throughout our lives, yielding advantages to our wellness, relationships, and jobs.
Seligman offers the "Signature Strengths Survey" that is utilized to measure how much positive emotion listeners experience, in purchase to aid determine what their highest strengths are. "Authentic Happiness" shows how to identify the best in ourselves, thus we may achieve new and sustainable degrees of authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning.
About the Author Martin E.P. Seligman:
Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., functions on positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, and on optimism and pessimism. He is currently Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is popular in educational and medical circles and is a best-selling writer.
His bibliography involves twenty books and 200 articles on motivation and character. Among his better-known functions are Learned Optimism (Knopf, 1991), What You Can Change & What You Can't (Knopf, 1993), The Optimistic Child (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), Helplessness (Freeman, 1975, 1993) and Abnormal Psychology (Norton, 1982, 1988, 1995, with David Rosenhan. His latest book is the best-selling, Authentic Happiness (Free Press, 2002). He is the recipient of 2 Distinguished Scientific Contribution awards within the American Psychological Association, the Laurel Award of the American Association for Applied Psychology and Prevention, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He holds an honorary Ph.D. from Uppsala, Sweden and Doctor of Humane Letters within the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Seligman received both the American Psychological Society's William James Fellow Award (for contribution to standard science) and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award (for the application of emotional knowledge).
Dr. Seligman's analysis and writing has been broadly supported by a amount of organizations including The National Institute of Mental Health (constantly since 1969), the National Institute of Aging, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. His analysis on preventing depression received the MERIT Award of the National Institute of Mental Health in 1991. He is the network director of the Positive Psychology Network and Scientific Director of the Classification of Strengths and Virtues Project of the Mayerson Foundation. For 14 years, he was the Director of the Clinical Training Program of the Psychology Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Seligman was called a "Distinguished Practitioner" by the National Academies of Practice, and in 1995 received the Pennsylvania Psychological Association's honor for “Distinguished Contributions to Science and Practice." He is a past-president of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Seligman served as the leading consultant to Consumer Reports for their pioneering post, which recorded the capability of long-term psychotherapy. He is scientific director of Foresight, Inc, a testing business, which predicts success in numerous walks of existence.
His books have been translated into twenty languages and have been right sellers both in America and abroad. His function has been showcased found on the front page of the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the Reader's Digest, Redbook, Parents, Fortune, Family Circle, USA Today and other prevalent publications. He has been a spokesman for the research and practice of psychology on many tv and radio shows. He has created columns on such far-flung topics as knowledge, violence, joy, and therapy. He has lectured all over the world to educators, industry, parents, and mental wellness experts.
In 1996 Dr. Seligman was elected President of the American Psychological Association, by the biggest vote in contemporary history. His main aim as APA President was to join practice and research together so both would thrive a objective that has dominated his own lifetime as a psychologist. His main initiatives worried the prevention of ethnopolitical warfare and the research of Positive Psychology.
Since 2000 his principal mission has been the promotion of the field of Positive Psychology. This discipline involves the research of positive emotion, positive character traits, and positive organizations. As the research behind these becomes more firmly grounded, Dr. Seligman is today turning his attention to training Positive Psychologists, people whose practice can create the globe a happier spot, in a means that parallels scientific psychologists having prepared the globe a less unhappy spot. |
