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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. (Nonfiction).(Brief Article)
MARTIN E.P. SELIGMAN. Free Press, $26 (320p) ISBN 0-7432-2297-0
In his latest user-friendly road map for human emotion, the author of the bestselling Learned Optimism proposes ratcheting the field of psychology to a new level. "Relieving the states that make life miserable... has made building the states that make life worth living less of a priority. The time has finally arrived for a science that seeks to understand positive emotion, build strength and virtue, and provide guideposts for finding what Aristotle called the 'good life,' " writes Seligman. Thankfully, his lengthy homage to happiness may actually live tip to the ambitious promise of its subtitle. Seligman …
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