Authentic Happiness: Using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment by Martin Seligman, Free Press, $26, ISBN 0743222970 Reviewed by Robert Emmons
THE career of eminent psychologist Martin Seligman has spanned both “negative” and “positive” psychology: from learned helplessness and depression to learned optimism and hope. When he was president of the American Psychological Association a few years ago, his agenda was the transformation of a field that, in his view, was exclusively preoccupied with weakness and pathology to one which was equally respectful of psychological strengths and virtues.
Armed with more funds than, as he…
