Sept. 4 -- In his new book, Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman says that the field of psychology has placed too much emphasis on relieving people's miseries, as opposed to building ...

Yet in his latest book, Flourish, Seligman tries to provide something of a course correction for positive psychology. Seligman, the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at the University of ...

The story of positive psychology starts, its founder often says, in 1997 in his rose garden. Martin Seligman had just been elected head of the American Psychological Association and was in search ...

But Seligman veered away from the traditional, clinical approach that focuses on treating the symptoms of an illness. “So about 20 years ago, I gave it up and started to work on the good life and ...

Using Seligman's work, the book alleges, the two tried to break down detainee resistance to facilitate confessions. According to Mayer, Mitchell "cited the uses of Learned Helplessness" in his work.

T hese days Martin Seligman, author of the best-selling book Authentic Happiness, is perhaps best known as a father of positive of psychology — the study of people’s strengths and virtues ...

This spring, Albany Academy presented a Distinguished Alumni Award to Martin Seligman, who graduated in 1960. This child of Albany went on to become one of the world's foremost psychologists. He ...

And then, in 2012, Martin Seligman reversed course with his next book, Flourish. He offered a provocative opener. He no longer believed in his previous conclusion that happiness is the end game.

SARAH GREEN: That was University of Pennsylvania’s Martin Seligman. The book is Flourish, and the article, “Building Resilience” appears in the April issue of HBR.

Martin Seligman, founder of the positive psychology movement, will release an autobiography called The Hope Circuit tomorrow. In one passage of his book, ...

NOTE: I recently published a review of Marty Seligman's new book, Flourish, in the journal Nature. It had to be significanctly abridged, and I provide the original version below. The premise of ...