Seminar 4: Psychological perspectives
Canterbury Christchurch University
10 June 2009
Interventions to measure and develop emotional well-being draw extensively on cognitive and developmental psychology and on more recent ideas in positive psychology. Both implicitly and explicitly, these developments and their underlying psychological assumptions offer particular views of identity, human development and about ways of changing or influencing one’s sense of self. This event relates cognitive, socio-cultural and psycho-analytical perspectives to discussion of philosophical perspectives in seminar 3.
Speakers
- Guida de Abreu, Reader in Cultural Psychology, Oxford Brookes University: Constructions of the child and meanings of well-being: a cultural psychology perspective
- Tom Billington, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Sheffield: Feeling, thinking and learning: narratives from neuro-science
- Felicia Huppert, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge: The science of well-being: causes, benefits, and approaches to its enhancement
Documentation
- For a summary of papers and discussions at this seminar, please see Lee Jones's article on Culture Wars.
Working papers
The following working papers are freely available for downloading, but should not be circulated or cited without the permission of the authors.
