Positive Psychology Books

The Groundbreaking Books

Authentic happiness - Martin Seligman
Learned optimism - Martin Seligman
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Good business - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Happiness: Lessons from a new science - Richard Layard
Now discover your strengths - Marcus Buckingham
Psychological Capital - Fred Luthans et al

Introductory and text books

Positive Psychology: The science of happiness and human strengths - Alan Carr
A primer in Positive Psychology - Christopher Peterson
Positive Psychology in a nutshell - Ilona Boniwell

Advanced

Handbook of Positive Psychology - Snyder & Lopez
Positive Psychology in Practice - Alex Linley & Stephen Joseph

 

Positive Psychology Articles

Our articles

Strengths approaches - An overview of strengths approaches

Popular Press

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-242.html - Psychology Today article
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1793873_1,00.html - The Times article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1088065,00.html - Guardian article

 

Research and academic articles

http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/images/apaarticle.pdf - 2005 paper reviewing recent developments