What is the good life? Positive psychology and the renaissance of humanistic psychology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19429520
AutoresBrent Dean Robbins (0000-0002-2314-9049, Point Park University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen36
Número2
Páginas96-112
Fecha de publicación2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Humanistic Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0887-3267 • E-ISSN: 1547-3333
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/08873260802110988
OpenAlexW2014501298
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29
Referencias citadas54

Positive and humanistic psychology overlap in thematic content and theoretical presuppositions, yet positive psychology explicitly distances itself as a new movement, despite the fact that its literature implicitly references its extensive historical grounding within humanistic psychology. Consequently, humanistic psychologists both celebrate diffusion of humanistic ideas furthered by positive psychology, and resent its disavowal of the humanistic tradition. The undeniably close alignment of these two schools of thought is demonstrated in the embracing of eudaimonic, in contrast to hedonic, conceptions of happiness by positive psychology. Eudaimonic happiness cannot be purely value-free, nor can it be completely studied without using both nomethetic and idiographic (i.e., quantitative and qualitative) methods in addressing problems of value, which identifies positive psychology clearly as a humanistic approach, despite its protestations

Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Eudaimonia · Happiness · Humanism · Humanistic psychology · Nomothetic and idiographic · Positive psychology · Theoretical psychology · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology