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Title: Authentic Happiness : Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin Seligman ISBN: 0-7432-2297-0 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: prescription for a happy, fulfilled life
Comment: After wide-reaching research across time and cultures, Martin Seligman has identified six virtues: Wisdom and learning, courage, love and humanity, justice, temperance, spirituality and transcendence. In "Authentic Happiness" he describes how to strengthen your character in order to develop these life-affirming virtues. Unlike traditional psychotherapy, which revolves around a "talking cure" and seeks to identify traumatic events in a person's past, and even to assign blame, Seligman's Positive Psychology focuses on developing your "signature strengths", and on learning what you will find genuinely fulfilling in life.
Using personal anecdotes in addition to well-documented (and in some cases, surprising) studies, he demonstrates how we can avoid being trapped by the downward spiral of negativity and depression. This is a remarkable book that defies classification. It should not be limited to the "self-help" genre, as Seligman goes far beyond that to introduce a new way of thinking about individual potential. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Happiness & Optimism -- can Pessimism be Constructive ?
Comment: The author, Dr. Seligman, is famous for his book Learned Optimism. And his new book, Authentic Happiness, is a useful addition with an especially good web site. Not all psychologists have agreed with, or found research support for, Dr. Seligman's theory of optimism. Some parts of Positive Psychology have been found to be too one-sided and unrealistic about optimism. The academic book about that research and theory is Optimism and Pessimism edited by Dr. Chang. That book has a chapter about constructive pessimism by Dr. Norem, the author of the Positive Power of Negative Thinking. Some psychologists say Dr. Seligman's theory of Positive Psychology is too much a 'one size fits all' model of healthy personality. Individual and cultural differences seem to be more important than Dr. Seligman says. So some people may want to compare his theory to the psychology of constructive pessimism. The surge of research on Resiliency in psychology indicates that individual differences in personality are fundamental -- what helps me won't necessarily help you. Keeping an open mind while exploring psychological health seems to be the key. In any case, Dr. Seligman does present some of the answers for some of the people, and that is worthwhile.
Rating: 4
Summary: Seligman's Online Site Beats the Book
Comment: I heard about this book on NPR a few months ago and checked out the companion website (authentichappiness.org) before buying the book. The site has 17 questionnaires on happiness, optimism, relationships, emotion, and Seligman's trademark Values in Action Signature Strengths. You can take these tests days or weeks apart and track your progress. It's an excellent site and does the job of prompting you to buy the book.
The book just isn't as strong as the site. As noted it other reviews it's part autobiography, part research report and part self-help book. You'll get formulas like H = S + C + V (H is enduring level of happiness, S is your set range, C is the circumstances of your life, v is voluntary variables) and lots of self-congratulatory stories about Seligman's friends, colleagues, wife and kids. Not that any of that's bad, but I have to wonder if his editor didn't ask him "Are you sure you want to include this?"
Single greatest reminder of something I knew but had forgotten: "You can't change your past, but you can change your perception of it."
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Title: Learned Optimism : How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman ISBN: 0671019112 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: What You Can Change and What You Can't : The Complete Guide to Successful Self-ImprovementLearning to Accept Who You Are by Martin E. Seligman ISBN: 0449909719 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 24 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Optimistic Child : Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resistance by Martin E. Seligman ISBN: 0060977094 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 11 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Resilience Factor: 7 Essential Skills for Overcoming Life's Inevitable Obstacles by Andrew Shatte, Karen Reivich ISBN: 0767911903 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman ISBN: 0743518020 Publisher: Sound Ideas Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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