Both humanistic and positive psychology look to explore ‘the good things’ in life. But their methods and focus are very different.
In 1998, Martin Seligman and Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, the founding fathers of positive psychology, asserted that psychology as a field had forgotten two of its three original missions. The first mission was to cope with mental illness. This was the focus of numerous studies. The other two missions, nurturing talent and making ordinary people’s lives better, were receiving significantly less attention.
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