TEDTalk Tuesday: Psychology Today - Democratic Underground

Occulus

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Tue Jul-22-08 01:58 PM
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TEDTalk Tuesday: Psychology Today

No, not the magazine. This week's TEDTALKTUESDAY is given by a psychologist and author from the University of Pennsylvania who tells us how psychology has been good, not good, and how it can be made to be better.

Enjoy!

MARTINSELIGMAN

Talk Title: Why is psychology good? (Video runtime: 23:41)

This talk is also available for free download in high resolution format.

Martin Seligman

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About this talk

Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?

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patrice

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Tue Jul-22-08 02:41 PM
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1. The study of human behavior and mental processes provides many

coping tools, tools that are more useful than religious nostrums.

Psychology shouldn't be limited to Abnormal Psychology.

I bookmarked this for later; can't watch it at work.

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