Comments on: Positive Psychology: Dismissing the Dark Side? http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/positive-psychology/ Exploring Healthy Psychotherapy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Austin http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/positive-psychology/#comment-19976 Austin Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:14:01 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=2914#comment-19976 negative nellies are never going to be convinced though negative nellies are never going to be convinced though

]]> By: FrancisW. http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/positive-psychology/#comment-19962 FrancisW. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:13:08 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=2914#comment-19962 The article makes a valid point. Doc Wagner is right. Until you're willing to look at yourself warts and all healing is far away. Perceiving everything in the garden as rosy doesn't work. Face the thorny overgrown parts too. The article makes a valid point. Doc Wagner is right. Until you’re willing to look at yourself warts and all healing is far away. Perceiving everything in the garden as rosy doesn’t work. Face the thorny overgrown parts too.

]]> By: Samuel http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/positive-psychology/#comment-19957 Samuel Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:46:48 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=2914#comment-19957 The negative aspects that had been focused on before positive psychology came to the fore were not in balance either. Mental health problems have carried an undeserved stigma for too long. Could that association with so much negativity be why? Psychology needs to redress the balance in more areas than simply positive psychology. The negative aspects that had been focused on before positive psychology came to the fore were not in balance either. Mental health problems have carried an undeserved stigma for too long. Could that association with so much negativity be why?

Psychology needs to redress the balance in more areas than simply positive psychology.

]]> By: miker http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/positive-psychology/#comment-19935 miker Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:25:19 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=2914#comment-19935 Bravo and well said Dr. Wagner! I second that. Bravo and well said Dr. Wagner! I second that.

]]> By: Doc Wagner http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/positive-psychology/#comment-19934 Doc Wagner Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:13:24 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=2914#comment-19934 The irony in healing is that we often need to visit those darker places of pain, shame, guilt, fear, worthlessness, etc., in order to heal and overcome. The idea that we can somehow break free of our negative thoughts, beliefs, and somatic reactions via affirmation, without ever tending to those vulnerable places is one of the greatest mistakes a healer can make. No matter how positive one's thinking is, if such a person does not care for and grieve the part of them from the past that has suffered or been wounded or experienced some injustice, they will continue to be plagued by the wound...that is a clear of a fact as I can see based on my forty years of experience as a therapist. It's about time someone helped to reign in positive psychology and restore some balance. The irony in healing is that we often need to visit those darker places of pain, shame, guilt, fear, worthlessness, etc., in order to heal and overcome. The idea that we can somehow break free of our negative thoughts, beliefs, and somatic reactions via affirmation, without ever tending to those vulnerable places is one of the greatest mistakes a healer can make. No matter how positive one’s thinking is, if such a person does not care for and grieve the part of them from the past that has suffered or been wounded or experienced some injustice, they will continue to be plagued by the wound…that is a clear of a fact as I can see based on my forty years of experience as a therapist. It’s about time someone helped to reign in positive psychology and restore some balance.

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