Research Catalog

Title

Learned optimism : how to change your mind and your life / Martin E.P. Seligman.

Author

Seligman, Martin E. P.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 2006.

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Details

Description

x, 319 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enhances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an I-give-up habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. These skills can help break up depression, boost your immune system, better develop your potential, and make you happier. With generous additional advice on how to encourage optimistic behavior at school, at work and in children, Learned Optimism is both profound and practical--and valuable for every phase of life. --Publisher.

Subjects

• Stress, Psychological
• Depression
• Adaptation, Psychological
• Stress (Psychology)
• Ethics
• Depression, Mental
• Adjustment (Psychology)
• Self-realization
• Optimism

Note

• Originally published: Pocket Books, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-303) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Two ways of looking at life -- Learning to be helpless -- Explaining misfortune -- Ultimate pessimism -- How you think, how you feel -- Success at work -- Children and parents -- School -- Sports -- Health -- Politics, religion, and culture -- The optimistic life -- Helping your child escape pessimism -- The optimistic organization -- Flexible optimism.

ISBN

• 1400078393 (pbk.)
• 9781400078394 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006277713

OCLC

• 62793275
• SCSB-9994661

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library