Positive psychology is not the same as positive thinking

In this opportunity, we want to echo the warning that Dwayne Allen Thomas, a lawyer and teacher in Positive Applied Psychology, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania on the tendency to confuse positive thinking with positive psychology. Thomas recalls that prior to World War II, psychology had three goals: to cure mental illness, to cultivate talent, and to make people's lives more satisfying and productive, but the treatment of mental illness ceased to be the fundamental objective when, at the end of the 20th century, positive psychology arose in order to become the "science of human strengths", focusing its work no longer on curing but on preventing the evils of the human mind by cultivating the forts.

     Already in this century, positive psychology is in the search for the promotion of human potential until it reaches the present time when this science uses the scientific method to study the factors that contribute to human wellbeing. Man has always been concerned with welfare, an example is Aristotle who warned that one thing was happy and another was to feel happy. In this same scheme, Seligman stated that the absence of mental illness wasn’t necessarily equivalent to the presence of mental wellbeing. Thus, we arrive at what is object of this writing and we refer then, that positive psychology shouldn’t be confused.

     Studies show that positive outcomes are not limited to positive stimuli. One example is that fear and anger encourage selective attention. Another example is the case of the post-traumatic growth concept which is defined as a positive change derived from a traumatic event, so we haven’t necessarily too much of a bad thing equally in something also bad. Excessive confidence, for example, can lead to arrogance, in such a way; it is erratic belief that positive thinking is enough to be part of positive psychology. It is not right to mix self-help with positive psychology. Of course, Dwayne Allen Thomas also warns that positive psychology has sometimes been misunderstood as the study of a superficial hedonic form of happiness.

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