TY - JOUR
AU - Hill, Peter C.
AB -  The Virtues of Positive Psychology: the Rapprochement and Challenges of an Affirmative Postmodern Perspective STEVEN J. SANDAGE AND PETER C. HILL Martin Seligman (1999; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000) has helped galvanize the development of positive psychology. A comprehensive articulation of positive psychology has yet to be offered, but several themes have emerged in Seligman’s description of positive psychology. Seligman (1998a, 1998b) suggested that in addition to treating mental illness, psychology should recover the two other missions of facilitating “the good life” and nurturing talent or genius. An overarching goal for the two missions of positive psychology is to “build human strengths and civic virtues” (Seligman, 1998c, p. 2; also, see Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). Seligman (1999) has called for a taxonomy of the strengths or virtues that promote resilience and responsibility in individuals and families. He has also expressed serious concerns about the “victimology” he senses in American culture and psychology (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), and he suggested that the field of psychology needs a better “I-We balance” with more focus on developing flourishing, positive, and just communities (Seligman, 1999) to balance the individualism of western societies. The main thesis of this paper is that virtue could become 
TI - The Virtues of Positive Psychology: the Rapprochement and Challenges of an Affirmative Postmodern Perspective
JF - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
DO - 10.1111/1468-5914.00157
DA - 2001-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-virtues-of-positive-psychology-the-rapprochement-and-challenges-of-io419vU21c
SP - 241
VL - 31
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -