Disaster is one of the long-term damage caused by a pandemic.
Only luck and apparently “Psychology and the Good Life”, a course given by the young professor Laurie Santos at Yale University on the positive psyche, can help against unhappiness.
So far, therapeutic psychology has largely been concerned with combating negative states of mind.
Clinical research has long known the added health benefits of happiness, even for everyone who is basically doing well.
Positive psychologists ask themselves the question: What practices and means are there, how are there practices and means against depression, to make people happier?
The still young research field has been attracting more and more attention since Laurie Santos offered courses like “The Science of Well-Being” from Yale, which are more successful than courses in the 300-year history of the Ivy League University .
Santos had noticed that there seemed to be a disproportionate number of students who were disproportionately disgruntled to clinically depressed.