Interdisciplinary Psychology:

From Reading An Introduction to Positive Psychology Compton (2005) I learned a basic understanding of positive psychology. In chapter one about the history of Positive psychology. That the term Positive psychology was first used by Martin E. P. Seligman in 1998, at the time President of the American Psychological Association “to create a new direction and new orientation for psychology”. As a reminder of psychology’s mission: to build human strength and nurture genius. Chapter one also defined it as “positive psychology studies what people do right how they manage to do it”. In defining the focus of Positive psychology (Seligman and Csikzentmihalyi, 2000) listed the following three, positive subjective states, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. The book offers this partial list studied in Positive psychology: “altruism and empathy, building enriching communities, creativity, forgiveness and compassion, the role of positive emotions in job satisfaction, the enhancement of immune system functioning, lifespan models of positive personality development, styles of psychotherapy that emphasize accomplishments and positive traits, savoring each fleeting moment of life, strengthening the virtues as way to increase authentic happiness, and the psychological benefits of Zen meditation