Positive Psychology: Healing the well?
October 3rd, 2009
In the above clip is Professor Martin Seligman, renowned on the subjects of depression and abnormal psychology, who has become since around the 90’s a proponent of Positive Psychology.
This video is a TED talk he gave on July 21, 2008, in which he delves into what Positive Psychology is; moving the science beyond just treating those people suffering from something to helping people achieve actual happiness and meaningful lives. Being that it’s TED, he ties it back to technology, science and design at the end, but it’s essentially a very similar talk to the one I heard him give last Tuesday on the subject of “Positive Psychology and Positive Education” as part of the British Psychological Society Lecture Series.
There’s a lot to be said for what Seligman is evangelizing, and a number of areas worth exploring, but what interested me quite a bit was the notion of flow. Read the rest of this entry »