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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4
Canada
[email protected]
> On Oct 21, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> |New Thought movement
> |
> |New Thought is a spiritual movement that began in the
> |United States in the late 19th century which promotes
> |positive thinking and healing.
>
> Yikes! Positive psychology was scooped! ;-)
Yup. Read Barbara Ehrenreich's _Bright-Sided_. Pos Psych, despite its incessant
appeals to "science," is pretty much just the latest incarnation of the
long-running American obsession with happiness -- from New Thought to Christian
Science to Positive Thinking to the Prosperity Gospel to Positive Psych. She
reports a great interview with Marty Seligman in which even he can't quite keep
a totally straight face while extolling its putatively "scientific" virtues.
And that was before the "happiness equation" collapsed in ruins.
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4
Canada
[email protected]
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