A Brief Overview of the Meaning of Love (Part 1)
Love can be either the most powerful motivation for growth or the most destructive force in your life — it all depends on the kind of love you have embraced. According to Rubin (1970), love has three components: (1) an affiliative and dependent need, (2) a...
Foreword: The Spiritual Journey of Healing from the Bottom of hell
Abstract This Foreword is for Lorraine Taylor’s book Hope Rises from a Shattered Innocence. Click here for the PDF of the Foreword. It was an unusually warm Sunday afternoon. As I savored the sunshine and reflected on Lorraine Taylor’s book Hope Rises from A...
Existential Suffering in Palliative Care: An Existential Positive Psychology Perspective
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacies of the current healthcare system and needs a paradigm change, which is holistic, and community based illustrated by the healing wheel. The present paper proposes that existential positive psychology (PP 2.0)...
Foreword to Piers Worth’s Positive Psychology Textbook
Piers Worth’s textbook on positive psychology represents a landmark publication, because it heals the unfortunate divide between humanistic and positive psychology and demonstrates that an integration between these two schools can be done to advance the science of...
Integrative Meaning Therapy (IMT)
Abstract The prolonged disruption of life caused by the pandemic and mandatory lockdowns has severely tested the human capacity to adapt. While some people have responded well with resilience, many others have succumbed to various mental illnesses, such as suicide,...
Beyond Happiness and Success: The New Science of Self-transcendence
Abstract This keynote will provide a framework for existential positive psychology (PP 2.0) which embraces suffering as the foundation for flourishing. According to this perspective, the worst thing that can happen after the COVID-19 pandemic is a return to normal...
Meaning Conference 2021: Summit on the Future of Positive Education – Introduction
Abstract This model (Figure 1) complements Erickson’s stage model (Erikson & Erikson, 1997) by elaborating the stages of adult development (Cohen, 2005) and adding an existential dimension, which has been shown to be related to mental health in different...
Meaning Conference 2021: Summit on Mental Health – Introduction
Abstract The pandemic has drastically disrupted all aspects of life, such as education, the family, and social life. As a result, anxiety, depression, and emergency department visits for drug overdoses and suicide attempts all rose, according to the data from the...
