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Interested in learning more about the research and work being done at The New School for Social Research? Check out Public Seminar, an online publication that showcases thought-provoking articles from members of the NSSR community. In a recent piece, NSSR Professor Jeremy Safran speaks about the dark side of positive psychology: So what could possibly be wrong with the growing interest in positive psychology? At one level, there is something very much right about it. Just as the humanistic tradition of the 1960s was an important corrective to the conservative and pathologizing aspects of the psychoanalysis of the times...positive psychology’s focus on happiness and achieving beneficial states of mind is a potential force for good. Yet at the same time there is something missing from it — a tragic or ironic sensibility. Read more: bit.ly/1hCJSLI
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:22:26 +0000

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