Positive Psychology in the News: Huffington Post

July 19th, 2009  |  

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Popular political and current event-centered blog The Huffington Posthas picked up on the buzz about positive psychology recently, publishing an exploratory article that highlights several of the movement’s major concepts. Promoting the cause of positive psychology to the internet-reading public at large, the blog discusses the importance of focusing on the good rather than basing understanding and treatment on “illness” or negative values. As positive psychology continues to break through with major media exposure, its tenets are bound to be both embraced and refined by a greater number of mental health professionals and clients alike.

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1 comment so far

  • Judith Barr July 27th, 2009 at 6:05 AM #1

    As a psychotherapist, I am deeply concerned about the prevalence of “quick fix” modalities in our world that prevent the true, deep healing we so clearly need.

    On the surface, focusing only on the “good” in our lives seems attractive. However, when we look deeper, we find that all this does is bury our inner wounds (which cry out to be healed) even deeper within ourselves…only to rise again and again to the surface to haunt us.

    We would never consider telling a diabetic not to take his/her insulin and simply concentrate on the positive aspects of his/her life. This would be ludicrous and dangerous! But this is basically what we tell people every day, when we tell them to ignore the wounding alive inside them, and “think positive”…the wounding rooted in childhood that still affects their lives today.

    We all have wounds under the surface of our consciousness and as therapists, we have the responsibility both to do our own inner work and to help our clients do theirs. Anything less helps feed the abuse of power in our world.

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