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Cover
Title
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: interiorizing and interrogating well-being
Introduction
1 Critical positive psychology: a creative convergence of two disciplines
Section 1 Criticism of positive psychology
2 The unavoidable role of values in positive psychology: reflections in light of psychology’s replicability crisis
3 Taking a closer look at well-being as a scientific construct: delineating its conceptual nature and boundaries in relation to spirituality and existential functioning
4 The meaning and valence of gratitude in positive psychology
5 Positive psychology, mental health, and the false promise of the medical model
6 Is positive psychology an indigenous psychology?
7 Community psychology’s contributions to happiness and well-being: including the role of Context, Social Justice, and Values in our understanding of the good life
8 Positive psychology: intellectual, scientific, or ideological movement?
9 Is positive psychology compatible with freedom?
10 Critique of positive psychology and positive interventions
11 Toward a well-spoken explanatory style
12 An introduction to criticality for students of positive psychology
Interlude 1
13 Five historic philosophers discuss human flourishing and happiness in positive psychology: a speculative dialogue in three acts
Section 2 Doing positive psychology critically
14 A re-appraisal of boredom: a case study in second wave positive psychology
15 Affirming the positive in anomalous experiences: a challenge to dominant accounts of reality, life, and death
16 Uncovering the good in positive psychology: toward a worldview conception that can help positive psychology flourish
17 Toward a culturally competent positive psychology
18 Cultural and racial perspectives on positive psychologies of humility
19 Positive psychology’s religious imperative
20 Character strengths as critique: the power of positive psychology to humanise the workplace
21 Toward an integrative applied positive psychology
22 Positive politics: left-wing versus right-wing policies, and their impact on the determinants of wellbeing
23 A proposed enquiry into the effect of sociocultural changes on well-being
24 Complexity: towards a new measure of societal well-being
Interlude 2
25 Pleasure as a form of liberatory practice
Section 3 Applied perspectives
26 Community social psychology and positive psychology: learning from the experience of Latin America
27 Positive, necessary, and possible lives: experience and practice from the struggle for a dignified life
28 Exploring the role of engagement in well-being and personal development: a review of adolescent and mental health activism
29 Citizenship, mental health, and positive psychology
30 The brutality of reality
31 Philotimo: vices and virtues of a moral archetype
32 Evaluating positive education: a framework and case study
33 Shaping positive education research to influence public policy
34 Positive psychology at a city scale
35 Judging the efficacy and ethics of positive psychology for government policymaking
36 Feel good or be happy: distinctions between emotions and development in the environmental psychology research of wellbeing
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