Historia, investigación y discurso de la Psicología PositivaUn abordaje crítico
ISSN: 0716-6184, 0718-4808
Year of publication: 2018
Volume: 36
Issue: 2
Pages: 123-133
Type: Article
More publications in: Terapia psicológica
Abstract
The Positive Psychology (PsP) has reached a great academic, social and bibliographic impact. Nonetheless, this success has been hindered by questioning the originality of some ideas; the scientific approach and the social relevance of the research findings. Likewise, possible risks derived from their interventions and implementations have been suggested. Thus, the objective of the present study is to conduct a critical and constructive reflection about the current situation of PsP. As a conclusion, the PsP must be more rigorous historically through the adoption of a long term perspective; carry out a construction and dissemination of knowledge based on ethic; develop a more realistic discourse within a policy of improving happiness and finally, empirical data that underpin the PsP are used to justify a neoliberal political ideology of happiness.