Positive Psychology: Changing Your Mind - CBC The Nature of Things/ ARTE

Friday, April 10, 2015

Changing Your Mind - CBC The Nature of Things/ ARTE

Uploaded on Jun 2, 2011

A follow up to our film, The Brain That Changes Itself, this one hour documentary looks at how neuroplasticity is being used to treat conditions of mental illness long believed to be hopeless - with Dr Norman Doidge. Directed by Mike Sheerin. Produced by 90th Parallel Productions. www.90thparallel.ca

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Link: https://youtu.be/Q-NpRhC107k

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."

Friday, April 10, 2015

Changing Your Mind - CBC The Nature of Things/ ARTE

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