Should psychology be ‘positive’? Letting the philosophers speak: Commentary on... Hope, optimism and delusion

This is a brief commentary on the value of optimism in therapy. It draws on the philosophical writings of Schopenhauer and Aristotle. It suggests that the modern preoccupation with optimism may be as extreme as the bleak pessimistic outlook favoured by Schopenhauer.

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Autor principal: Oyebode, Femi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014
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Editorials
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25237498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.113.045823
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spelling pubmed-41154042014-08-21 Should psychology be ‘positive’? Letting the philosophers speak: Commentary on... Hope, optimism and delusion Oyebode, Femi Psychiatr Bull (2014) Editorials This is a brief commentary on the value of optimism in therapy. It draws on the philosophical writings of Schopenhauer and Aristotle. It suggests that the modern preoccupation with optimism may be as extreme as the bleak pessimistic outlook favoured by Schopenhauer. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4115404/ /pubmed/25237498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.113.045823 Text en © 2014 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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