Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

Download or read book Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning written by Dmitry A Leontiev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the ways in which we can understand the meaning of the psychology of meaning in people’s lives? In the last century mainstream psychology has largely neglected the topic of meaning. More recently, the concept has become an academically legitimate one within positive psychology and in some other speciality areas of psychology. This book contains a collection of theoretical, methodological and empirical papers written by the acknowledged experts systematically working on the problems of personal meaning within the positive psychology framework. The authors investigate the possibilities and limitations of a scientific study of personal meaning and new perspectives that this concept brings to the field. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Positive Psychology.