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Authentic happiness : using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment / Martin E.P. Seligman.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seligman, Martin E. P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Positive psychology.
- Happiness.
- Optimism.
- Conduct of life.
- Medical Subjects:
- Happiness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages.)
- Edition:
- First Free Press paperback edition.
- Other Title:
- Using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2004.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking look at how readers can improve the world around them and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Positive emotion
- Positive feeling and positive character
- How psychology lost its way and I found mine
- Why bother to be happy?
- Can you make yourself lastingly happier?
- Satisfaction about the past
- Optimism about the future
- Happiness in the present
- pt. 2. Strength and virtue
- Renewing strength and virtue
- Your signature strengths
- pt. 3. In the mansions of life
- Work and personal satisfaction
- Love
- Raising children
- Reprise and summary
- Meaning and purpose.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-304) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780743247887
- 0743247884
- Publisher Number:
- 99975947286
- 9780743222983
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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