Learned optimism : how to change your mind and your life
Seligman, Martin E. P.2006
Books, Manuscripts
Known as the father o the new science of Positive Psychology, Martin 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.
Main title:
Learned optimism : how to change your mind and your life / Martin E. P. Seligman.
Author:
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Imprint:
New York : Vintage Books, 2006.
Collation:
x, 319 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Pocket Books, 1998.Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-303) and index.
Contents:
Two ways of looking at lifeLearning to be helplessExplaining misfortuneUltimate pessimismHow you think, how you feelSuccess at workChildren and parentsSchoolSportsHealthPolitics, religion, and cultureThe optimistic lifeHelping your child escape pessimismThe optimistic organizationFlexible optimism.
ISBN:
1400078393 (pbk)9781400078394
Dewey class:
155.232155.232649.1
LC class:
BJ1477
Local class:
155.2
Language:
English
BRN:
552606
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