positive psychology

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Randall C. Wyatt, PhD, Martin Seligman, PhD ORDER DVDS


With English Subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers.
The founder of Positive Psychology, Martin Seligman, PhD, introduces Positive Psychotherapy.

In this landmark interview by Randall C. Wyatt, Seligman emphasizes that happiness is not just the absence of disorder, as "psychology as usual" might contend. Rather, happiness derives from an execution of our signature strengths. Seligman demonstrates a new set of rigorously tested interventions that lastingly increase happiness while decreasing depression.

Dr. Seligman discusses his predecessors Maslow, Rogers, and Beck, what he took from them, and what he changed. He proposes new questions like, "What was the best experience you ever had?" And he explains how easy, enormously fun and important techniques can be grafted on to therapy with all clients to help them live a more engaged, meaningful, and thus happier life.



After watching this lively, personally revealing conversation, you'll be eager to apply these innovative ideas to your psychotherapy practice!

From watching this video, you will: See how Positive Psychotherapy incorporates the tenets of Positive Psychology including learned optimism, authentic happiness, meaningfulness, gratitude visits, and signature strengths.
Learn to apply new techniques in your psychotherapy work with clients to increase their happiness and well-being.
Understand the importance in psychotherapy of both getting rid of disorder and creating sustainable happiness.

Let's Just Move On......

Collective Unconscionable

How psychologists, the most liberal of professionals,
abetted Bush’s torture policy.

By Arthur Levine

The Washington Monthly, January/February 2007

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Psychology has long had ties to the military and the government. Indeed, the armed forces may have played a larger role than any other institution in establishing psychology as a technical and scientific profession. During World War I, psychologists were placed in charge of aptitude tests given to soldiers—a task they again carried out in World War II, by which time they had been thoroughly integrated into the military structure. By the 1950s, they were helping to conduct Cold War studies on interrogation that included experiments with sensory deprivation and hallucinogens meant to serve as “truth serum” (LSD, for example)—and developed techniques used by the CIA to torture prisoners in Latin America in the 1980s.

Samurai Kitsch from the Asian Art Museum

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