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{{About|the philosophical concept and its psychological study}}
The good life is a term used to indicate the most optimal life a person could possibly live. It is often associated with the concept of eudaimonia in Aristotle's writings on ethics. For centuries the fields of philosophy and religion have debated over how to live the good life, but it has also become a topic of interest to psychologists.[1] The driving principle behind psychological research on optimal functioning is that the absence of psychopathology alone does not indicate mental health.[2] Recently, the field of Positive psychology has become the champion of a "build-what's-strong" approach to supplement the "fix-what's-wrong" emphasis in traditional psychotherapy (p. 631).[1] The major obstacle to this process is how to identify factors that constitute the good life.
- ^ a b Duckworth, Angela Lee; Steen, Tracy A.; Seligman, Martin E. P. (2005). "Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice" (PDF). Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 1: 629–651. doi:10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.1.102803.144154.
- ^ Seligman, Martin E. P.; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2000). "Positive Psychology: An Introduction". American Psychologist. 55 (1): 5–14. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.5.