Bright-sided : how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America

By B. Ehrenreich. 2009

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A Strengths-Based Approach to Outdoor and Adventure Education: Possibilities for Personal Growth (2010, background): “Among the most vocal is Ehrenreich (2009), who recently published a popular press book that positioned positive thinking as a form of self-deception and optimism as reckless delusion.”
Happiness, positive psychology and the program of neoliberal governmentality (2011, background): “Barbara Ehrenreich’s recent book, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, extends the left version of this critique, linking the compulsory optimism implicit within happiness discourse to a neoconservative political agenda with thinly veiled corporate ”
Self-Reported Wisdom and Happiness: An Empirical Investigation (2011, unknown): “In Bright - sided: How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich (2009) argued that being wiser and more in contact with reality might be hard at times but on average would make everybody happier in the long run.”
Third wave positive psychology: broadening towards complexity (2020, background): “necessarily beneficial and to be pursued, while negative phenomena are undesirable and to be avoided (Ehrenreich, 2009).”
Prozac leadership and the limits of positive thinking (2012, background): “Bush Jnr was a cheerleader in prep school, and as Ehrenreich (2009) observed, cheerleading could be considered the ‘athletically inclined ancestor’ of contemporary positive thinking.”