Positive Psychology and Its Discontents: Why Positive Psychology Fails and How It Might Succeed Again

by Michael Wearing and Matthew McDonald

Book Overview

Alongside the surging popularity of positive psychology has come a quiet but significant chorus of dissenting voices, raising questions about the movement: that it is philosophically naive, that it uncritically employs natural science research methods, that it takes a separatist stance, is unable to comprehensively acknowledge its theoretical antecedents, and that it is too closely aligned with mainstream US values, beliefs and politics.

Positive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113812348X
• ISBN13: 9781138123489
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages