Martin Seligman Quotes About Meaning Optimism And Well-Being
Martin Seligman is the father of positive psychology. He developed the field over the steadily over his years of research, teaching, and therapy. It began with his work on learned helplessness which eventually resulted in his noticing the lack of study in the area of mental well-being. Seligman noted that the field of psychology, since its inception, has only focused on mental illness. The thought that previously dominated the field was "if we fix all the negative, we will be left with a healthy happy patient". Seligman found that once you heal all the negative in your patient, you are not left with a healthy one but rather an empty one.
