Kritik der Positiven Psychologie

With Positive Psychology, a movement emerged around the year 2000, whose advocates aimed to expand psychology and social sciences to focus on the positive, thereby helping individuals lead successful lives. Since then, it has achieved an unprecedented success story and has quickly become an established field of research. Drawing from her own experiences during her psychology studies, Senta Brandt examines the development of Positive Psychology. She embarks on a quest for its roots and values, demonstrating that its program, contrary to the claim of being an objective science, is heavily normative and influenced by strategic motives.