Positive worldview and being human — possible common ground

• Main Author: Inina N.V.
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education 2012-07-01
• Series: Консультативная психология и психотерапия
• Subjects: personality psychology; positive psychology; happiness; value-sense sphere of personality; the consciousness; the unconscious; the process of indi-viduation; a psychological reality
• Online Access: http://psyjournals.ru/en/mpj/2012/n3/58860.shtml

The article discussed critically some of the provisions of positive psychology. In the center of the analysis – the concept of happiness, prosperity, value-sense sphere of personality. The role of negative conditions in the process of self-knowledge, and the need for full development of the individual. The hypothesis of the possibility of neurotic development in the case of ac-centuation person only on reaching of positive condi-tions and looking comfort and satisfaction. Examined the role of negative emotions in the formation of psy-chic reality of human.