With regard to medications, the most widely used drug is Antabuse (disulflram). Antabuse and alcohol don’t mix: When an alcoholic takes a dose of Ant… - Martin E P Seligman

Introducción a la psicología positiva” para la clase inaugural del programa de maestría en psicología positiva aplicada en 2005. Senia, de treinta y dos años, graduada con honores en matemáticas por la Universidad de Harvard, habla con soltura ruso y japonés y dirige su propio fondo de cobertura, es el ejemplo emblemático de la psicología positiva. Su sonrisa transmite calidez incluso a las aulas cavernosas de Huntsman Hall, apodado la “Estrella de la muerte” por los estudiantes de administración de la Wharton School de la Universidad de Pennsylvania que lo consideran su sede. Los estudiantes de este programa de maestría son muy especiales: treinta y cinco adultos exitosos de todas partes del mundo viajan a Filadelfia una vez al mes para participar en un festín de tres días de lo último y más novedoso en psicología positiva y cómo pueden aplicarlo a sus profesiones.

The optimists and the pessimists: I have been studying them for the past twenty-five years. The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case. The optimists believe defeat is not their fault: Circumstances, bad luck, or other people brought it about. Such people are unfazed by defeat. Confronted by a bad situation, they perceive it as a challenge and try harder.

Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do: