As president of the American Psychological Association in 1998, Martin Seligman challenged the psychological community to radically change its approach. For too long, he charged, psychology had been ...

I now know I do not actually want to be happy. “Happy,” as per Martin Seligman, author o f Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being, isn’t really enough to make me happy.

MARTIN SELIGMAN, a pioneer in the field of "positive psychology", is out with a new book modestly titled "Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being". I've yet to read it, but ...

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 ...

But according to Martin Seligman, widely considered the founder of the field, there’s more to positive psychology than happiness—and, more importantly, there’s more to life than happiness as well.