Edited By Dr Piers Worth
Positive Psychology Across The Lifespan
An Existential Perspective
Positive Psychology Across the Lifespan An Existential Perspective Edited by Piers Worth, chartered psychologist, accredited psychotherapist and visiting Professor of Positive Psychology at Bucks New University.
Positive Psychology Across the Life Span provides an insight into how we are affected by the different stages of adult development and gives us the opportunity to change through choice rather than leaving change to chance.
The book will be essential reading for students and practitioners of positive psychology, as well as other mental health professionals and individuals interested in exploring the subject for reasons of personal development.
The Authors
The Dream
The book was inspired by a dream Pier's Worth experienced. Andrew's photograph crystallized some of the ideas explained in the book
The Bridge
The photograph used as the book cover was taken by Andrew Machon on his "Lightseeker" expedition to the Arctic Circle. He gives us some background to it here
Visionaries and leading researchers in
areas of ‘Existential Positive Psychology’
In these brief summaries we want to familiarise you with leading ‘thinkers’ in the fields found within or overlapping with Existential Positive Psychology and offer you internet links to their work. The descriptions below are deliberately simple to leave you to explore and find out what you are drawn to. Their sites offer you a mix of freely available writing, and others where you might need to seek access, e.g. via requesting an inter-library loan of the journal article, or purchase it.
George Valliant and Other Influencers
Influencers behind the book
One of the things that has always fascinated me about the history of psychology is it cannot just be seen as a ‘science’. It emerges in a historical, social, and personal context of the figures who have shaped the discipline as a whole. There is a story as well as a theory. An interaction between many things that we could reflect on and learn from. So this is intended to be a series of podcasts that will grow over time, reflecting on some of the major figures behind existential positive psychology.
I feel we don’t just learn from the theory or research someone publishes, we also learn from the story behind the research and the person. It gives us a choice to incorporate not just the theory, but also the qualities of the person that created it. These stories fascinate me and I want to share some of them with you.