HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Positive Psychology, Psy, Medicalization
9 Feb 2018
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If 20thc was "the century of the psy-ences," 21stc marks culmination of the growth of psy. From relief of negative states and deficiencies to enhancement. Usually in positive psychology, but also how people make use of pharmaceutical regimens to improve life quality (e. g. pre-emptive use instead of prescribed use) Increasingly, daily discipline and governance over psychological life comes from the self, rather than experts. We imagine ourselves as psychological beings with psychological needs and we carry out practices that are all about that psychological self. In the garden with his daughter, she asks why he"s so grumpy; in that moment, he realized he was a grump, where his thinking was negative and pessimistic . Wanted a different kind of future for his daughter. He said that as a discipline, we should shift away from obsession with negative/harmful states/problems. As new head of apa, promised to revolutionize psychology by turning away from "the negative" to study the "universal science of happiness"
