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Websites

Authentic Happiness
www.authentichappiness.org
Martin Seligman's positive psychology website, where you can answer a range of questionnaires to assess happiness in different areas of your life. You will need to register to access some sections of the site.

Income and Happiness: Rethinking Economic Policy
www.lse.ac.uk/objects/2003/03/10/20030310t0946z002.pdf
In PDF format, this is one of the lectures given by Richard Layman of the London School of Economics, arguing that there is something intrinsic to modern capitalism that actively causes unhappiness. The Government is now considering how to formulate policy around social happiness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
www.brainchannels.com/thinker/mihaly.html
Learn more about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist who has spent his career researching what makes people satisfied.

Money and Happiness
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,909025,00.html
Polly Toynbee discusses whether more wealth means more happiness, and raises some interesting issues about the capitalist world we live in. The evidence is clear: our wellbeing depends on co-operation and the public good, not personal enrichment.

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Books

Authentic Happiness: Using the new Positive Psychology to realise your potential for lasting fulfilment by Martin Seligman (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2003)
Describes the strengths and virtues that each person can develop to achieve authentic happiness and provides a variety of tests and assessment tools to discover and deploy those strengths.
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Britain on the Couch: Why we're unhappier compared with 1950, despite being richer by Oliver James (Arrow, 1998)
This influential psychologist argues that our aspirations for more wealth essentially make us more discontented and that individuals have become trapped on a treadmill not of their own making; a never-ending quest to earn, spend more and keep up with the Joneses.
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Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (HarperCollins, 1997)
Explains the creative process and shows how creativity can enrich your life.
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Finding Flow: The psychology of engagement with everyday life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Perseus Books, 1998)
Part psychological study, part self-help book, this is a prescriptive guide that aims to help you reclaim ownership of your lives.
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Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman (Simon & Schuster, 1998 )
Learning to think positively can boost physical and emotional health, and enable you to fulfil your potential. This book shows you how to do it.
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Little Book of Happiness: Your guide to a better life by Patricia Whiteside (Vintage Ebury, 1998)
Claims to hold information about what is needed to become happy, and how to enjoy it when it comes.
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