Book
Bright-sided : how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
Metropolitan Books,
Physical Description
235 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage.
Contents
- Smile or die : the bright side of cancer
- The years of magical thinking
- The dark roots of American optimism
- Motivating business and the business of motivation
- God wants you to be rich
- Positive psychology : the science of happiness
- How positive thinking destroyed the economy
- Postscript on post-positive thinking.