From the bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness comes "a relentlessly optimistic guidebook on finding and securing individual happiness" (Kirkus Reviews). With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flouri…
"This book will help you flourish." With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins -- Flourish With interactive exercises to help readers explore their own attitudes and aims, Flourish Authentic Happiness. From the bestselling auth…
In this book the author presents his concept of what well-being really is and explains the four pillars of well-being (meaning and purpose, positive emotions, relationships, and accomplishment), placing emphasis on meaning and purpose as the most important for achieving a life o…
Over the last thirty-five years, Ken Wilber has developed an Integral "theory of everything" that makes sense of how all the world's knowledge systems'East and West; ancient, modern, and postmodern'fit together and can elevate our awareness. Drawing on science, psychology, human…
This comprehensive guide shows how to use Wilber's acclaimed Integral Approach to design a personal program of transformational practice. With its combination of exercises, explanations, theory, and illustrations, this work is intended to meet the needs of the whole person.
Data and metrics play an unmistakably powerful role in today's society. Over the years, their use has expanded to cover almost every sphere of everyday life. This book provides a critical investigation into what we can call a ""metric culture"" in which practices of self-trackin…
This text weaves together perspectives from philosophy, religion and psychology on a phenomenon reported since ancient time, the personal growth or strengthening by people who have endured traumatic events.
This text weaves together perspectives from philosophy, religion and psychology on a phenomenon reported since ancient time, the personal growth or strengthening by people who have endured traumatic events.
Abstract: We hope that we have presented information in a way that is accessible to clinicians, laypersons, and . . . other people who have experienced trauma. We have also tried to summarize a far-flung literature and describe a way of understanding the process of growth that w…
This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self-psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective round-trip be…
Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, perhaps 50 years ago, perhaps centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the t…
