Positive Psychology

I was wondering why there's no positive psych subforum. Have I just missed it somewhere?

I haven't been here for long, but it looks to me like this is the perfect place for a positive psych corner.

I don't have a definitive answer. I simply don't know. One guess would be that much of this forum was set up over a decade ago. When Positive Psych was in early stages.

But also, have a look at therapy-coping/ Which might be the obvious location for it. In practice, it's a very little used forum. Because people mostly bring the relevant therapy / coping approaches into the forums for the issues they're being applied to. Rather than writing in the abstract. So my guess would be that we probably wouldn't use a Positive Psych forum all that much. Since that implies a generalised discussion. Whereas most here are interested in the personal.

You can see the places it's already been discussed by putting "positive psychology" [in quotes] into the search box.

! :O

At first I thought this was a place that professionals / students would come to discuss these topics (because I found it through a google search of a pretty abstract discussion) but yeah now I see what you mean, it's more of a big support group with discussion around the edges.

Thanks for the feedback [:

Discussions are my favorite part of this forum. I haven´t found this place particularly supportive and so hope that other people that find it supportive don´t try to ruin for me the potential of having good discussions!

Ada wrote:Whereas most here are interested in the personal.

I think personal entails private, cause otherwise you might end up considering things like gossip magazines personal.

I think I meant more "practical application and testing" by "personal." That's not to say that there are no theoretical discussions here. But generally the interesting part of theory is whether and how it works in practice. Rather than beard stroking hypotheses that fall apart when confronted by reality.

my_hiatus wrote:! :O

At first I thought this was a place that professionals / students would come to discuss these topics (because I found it through a google search of a pretty abstract discussion) but yeah now I see what you mean, it's more of a big support group with discussion around the edges.

Thanks for the feedback [:

Don't go away! you haven't been diagnosed yet!!

Ada wrote:I think I meant more "practical application and testing" by "personal."

I still think that personal entails private, cause otherwise you might end up considering some survey you are doing as personal.

Ada wrote:Rather than beard stroking hypotheses that fall apart when confronted by reality.

There is no need to be sexist!