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Kate Burns, LMFT
PSYCHOTHERAPIST • MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
by Martin E. P. Seligman
"No matter what your temperatment," Dr. Seligman's research suggests three ways to achieve happiness. (And he used to consider himself a grouch!)
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
by Sonia Lyubomirsky
This book discusses how happiness changes over time and what strategies can increase happiness. My mentor has said, "This book is a must, not self-helpish (despite its title), is packed with research, and written for the lay person." Having read it, I say the same thing. I recommend it to everyone, friends and clients alike. In 1999, Dr. Lyubomirsky, after having been engaged in psychological research for 19 years, along with a select group of other research psychologists, "agreed to move... beyond the emphasis on disorder and disease, and asserted a new commitment, to focus attention upon the sources of psychological health, thereby going beyond prior emphases upon disease and disorder."
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
by Martin E. P. Seligman
If you're an optimist, this book will give credence to your attitude. If you think everyone who is optimistic is delusional (there's enough evidence to prove it), and things will get even worse, you might be surprised to find some of the evidence here broadening. It's hopeful; parents should read it together; a good gift.
*Note: See Mind Body Health for more information on Creating a Satisfying Life.
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The dynamics and interrelationship of: body, mind, behavior, feelings, spirit, the environment, and the role of creativity in the person as a whole.
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Mind Body - Now mainstream, once it was considered 'quackery.''
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Integrative Medicine - Combining traditional and alternative approaches to health and wellbeing.
The Proposition That Happiness Is Something Which Can Be, and Ought to Be, Taught by Martin Seligman, Ph.D.
[Study Mode]
While Dr. Seligman reports evidence that happiness can be taught, he argues more importantly that "happiness should be taught because happy people also have good physical and mental health and as a result they tend to live longer." To be sure, a convincing article. A good one for school administrators, perhaps.
Happiness, Inc. by Elizabeth Weil - An Interview with Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D.
[New York Times]
The interview reveals not only the arc of Dr. Lyubomirsky's research over 21 years — how the results of her early research and outcomes led her to the next area of focus, and to where she is now, one of the foremost and well-respected research psychologists in her field — but it also provides a glimpse at the woman she is: and hoenst and practical woman with a sense of humor, and who is sometimes irreverent.
Flourishing - A New Understanding of Wellbeing [Begin at 20:10]
If you've ever thought, 'Is that all there is?' even though things in your life were going well? Dr. Seligman makes a sound case that people are inclined to, and can, move beyond wellbeing alone. You may find it so exciting that there really can be more.
How Success Happens & The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement [Begin at 5:55]
A terrific speaker, New York Times columnist, David Brook, is enthusiastic about his research. I was happy to learn some new things. As a writer and not a pyschologist, he has a broader reach that expands the way we think and approach our notions about attitudes and success.
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