During the late 1950s, the psychologist Abraham Maslow coined the term “positive psychology”. The “major mistake of psychology is that it has a pessimistic, negative and limited conception of what people can attain”, he concluded. Accordingly, he formulated “a system” for individual growth that he believed could bring happiness to the American people and lead to the overthrow of the Soviet Union.
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