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Paperback Positive Psychology and Its Discontents: Why Positive Psychology Fails and How It Might Succeed Again Book

ISBN: 113812348X

ISBN13: 9781138123489

Positive Psychology and Its Discontents: Why Positive Psychology Fails and How It Might Succeed Again

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Format: Paperback

Release Date: 1/5/2026

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Alongside the surging popularity of positive psychology has come a quiet but significant chorus of dissenting voices, raising questions about the movement: that it is philosophically naive, that it uncritically employs natural science research methods, that it takes a separatist stance, is unable to comprehensively acknowledge its theoretical antecedents, and that it is too closely aligned with mainstream US values, beliefs and politics.

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