The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism

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Martin E. P. Seligman is one of the most decorated and popular psychologists of his generation. When he first encountered the discipline in the 1960s, it was devoted to eliminating misery, the science of how past trauma creates present symptoms. Today, thanks in large part to Seligman's own work pioneering the Positive Psychology movement, it is ever more focused on the bright side, gratitude, resilience and hope. In this his memoir, Seligman recounts how he learned to study optimism, including a life-changing conversation with his five-year-old daughter. In wise, eloquent prose, Seligman tells the human stories behind some of his major findings. He recounts developing cave, an analytical tool that predicts election outcomes (with shocking accuracy) based on the language used in campaign speeches and the canonical studies that birthed the theory of learned helplessness - which he now reveals was incorrect. and he writes at length for the first time about his own battles with depression at a young age.

 

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Martin Seligman PhD, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Positive Psychology Network, gave the Centennial address to the British Psychological Society in 2002 and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Cardiff. A former President of the American Psychological Association, he has written over 20 books including the bestselling Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness and in 2009 was awarded the British Academy's Wiley Prize in Psychology. He is widely considered the pre-eminent expert on applied psychology in the world.

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