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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There
is also the really nice discourse analysis (Wilkinson and Kitzinger) looking at
how the well-intentioned "be positive and your cancer will be more likely
to be cured" discourse that some medical people and others use also
actually blames the victims: if you do not get well you were not being positive
enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>They
also nicely analysed some of the strategies the women used to <b><i>counter</i></b>
this rhetoric.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Wilkinson, S., & Kitzinger, C. (2000). Thinking
differently about thinking positive: A discursive approach to cancer
patients’ talk. <i>Social Science & Medicine, 50</i>, 597-811.<span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Kitzinger, C. (2000b). How to resist an idiom. <i>Research
on Language and Social Interaction, 33</i>, 121-154.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: commpsych-bounces@lists.curtin.edu.au
[mailto:commpsych-bounces@lists.curtin.edu.au] On Behalf Of Lauren BREEN<br>
Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2008 11:08 AM<br>
To: commpsych@lists.curtin.edu.au<br>
Subject: Re: [Commpsych] FW: Announcing
theInternationalPositivePsychologyAssociation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I also have serious reservations about positive
psychology. With its individualist and 'blaming' ideology (in that people who
remain distressed are just not thinking positively enough), it is part of the
problem rather than part of the solution (to use a cliché). It doesn't actually
do anything to tackle the structural causes of factors that leads to distress -
things like poverty, abuse etc etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>It reminds me of something I hear Rod Watts say when here
was here in Australia about 8 or 9 years ago. He said you can throw a tennis
ball at the wall and it bounces back, but if you took a phot of the ball as it
hit the wall you could see how distorted the ball becomes on impact. He said we
should stop focussing on resilience (the things that help us bounce back) but
we should stop throwing the balls at the wall in the first place (that is, stop
causing the distress).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Lauren<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>---<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Lauren Breen, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Postdoctoral Research Scholar<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Centre for Social Research<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Sessional Lecturer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Edith Cowan University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Room: 4.234C<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Tel: (08) 6304 5162<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Fax: (08) 6304 5866<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: commpsych-bounces@lists.curtin.edu.au on behalf of
Darrin Hodgetts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: Thu 8/05/2008 4:17 AM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>To: Heather Gridley; Amiee-Jade Pember;
commpsych@lists.curtin.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Re: [Commpsych] FW: Announcing the
InternationalPositivePsychologyAssociation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I couldn't agree more Heather :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Darrin <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: commpsych-bounces@lists.curtin.edu.au on behalf of
Heather Gridley<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: Wed 7/05/2008 8:50 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>To: Amiee-Jade Pember; commpsych@lists.curtin.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Re: [Commpsych] FW: Announcing the International
PositivePsychologyAssociation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Hi AJ and everyone<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>A bit belated, but I have just responded to a query from
a Social Work student about the legitimacy of this same invitation, so I
thought I'd post my thoughts on CommPsych and see how others respond:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Dear xxxx<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I have seen this invitation to join IPPA in a few places,
and it's quite legitimate as an organisation that is gathering lots of interest
internationally, especially while one of its founders, Martin Seligman, is here
in Victoria spending time at Geelong Grammar (for a huge amount of money, I
understand). It is refreshing to see a countervoice to psychology's tendency
to pathologise and subdivide human experience into categories of disorder and
dis-ease. I like Seligman's emphasis on what we do with our lives, as a basis
for 'authentic happiness', rather than worrying excessively about how we feel
from one moment to the next.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Personally though, I have reservations about the Positive
Psychology movement. Some of them are encapsulated by the very fact that
Seligman spends time at Geelong Grammar and not, say, Braybrook or Broadmeadows
or Frankston (or Wadeye or Yuendemu, for that matter) where a few realities
would make 'learned optimism' a much more difficult task. I think the best way
to 'teach' someone to be optimistic is to give them a real experience of
success; otherwise it's a false promise. There have been links made between
positive psychology and life coaching, a concept that I think is designed to
market psychological services to people who have the least need of them but the
greatest capacity to pay exorbitant fees.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>There have been other criticisms of the movement from
those who see it as masking or denying 'negative' human emotions such as
sadness, pain and anger. Our VU head of psychology, Jenny Sharples, wrote a
paper in the Australian Community Psychologist a couple of years ago that
included some references to these critiques - you can access it at:
http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/ACP_18(3)a.pdf
<http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/ACP_18(3)a.pdf> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Despite the theme on the IPPA website "Positive
psychology is the scientific study of what enables individuals and communities
to thrive", another concern of mine is that the movement is very much
focussed on individuals rather than communities. There is very little reference
to power dynamics or the structural/global causes of human misery. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I hope this is helpful - I'd be interested to know what
caught your attention about the invitation, and where it fits with your own
work and life experiences.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Heather Gridley <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>School of Psychology <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Email: heather.gridley@vu.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: commpsych-bounces@lists.curtin.edu.au on behalf of
Amiee-Jade Pember<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: Fri 7/03/2008 12:15 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>To: commpsych@lists.curtin.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: [Commpsych] FW: Announcing the International
Positive PsychologyAssociation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Amiee-Jade Pember <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message----- <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: Louisa REHAK [mailto:l.rehak@ecu.edu.au] <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 8:57 AM <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: FW: Announcing the International Positive
Psychology Association <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>FYI - Positive Psychology <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Louisa Rehak <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Postgraduate Support Officer <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>School of Psychology & Social Science <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Edith Cowan University <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>100 Joondalup Drive <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Telephone: +61 8 6304 5301 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Facsimile: +61 8 6304 5834 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>________________________________ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: Kathryn RUSSELL <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: Fri 07/03/08 8:24 AM <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>To: Louisa REHAK <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: FW: Announcing the International Positive
Psychology Association <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Louisa, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>This new organisation may be of interest to postgrads and
staff interested <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>in positive psychology <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Kathryn <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Kathryn Russell <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Phone: 0419 807 142 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Email: k.russell@ecu.edu.au <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>________________________________ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: Authentic Happiness
[mailto:announce@authentichappiness.org] <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: Fri 7/03/2008 6:17 AM <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>To: Kathryn RUSSELL <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Announcing the International Positive Psychology
Association <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Dear Kathryn, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>We are delighted to announce the founding of a new
organization: The <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).
The purpose of this <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>organization is to promote the science and practice of
positive psychology <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>and to facilitate communication and collaboration among
researchers and <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>practitioners around the world who are interested in this
new field. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>This is a brand new organization, and we would like to
extend a cordial <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>invitation to you to be among the very first to join. We
have been hard at <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>work developing the infrastructure for what will without
question be a major <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>international organization. Here are some highlights we
wanted to share <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>with you: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-We have set up a website where you can find out more
about IPPA and where <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>you can join today. Please visit www.ippanetwork.org <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7031470&msgid=88104&act=&c=174806
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ippanetwork.org>
to sign up as a <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Charter Member, Charter Associate, or Charter Affiliate. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-IPPA is run by a Board of Directors comprised of leading
positive <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>psychologists from around the world. Visit the website
for a full list of <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>the members of the Board, which includes such founding
figures as Martin E. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>P. Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-On the website, you will see the categories of
membership developed by the <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>IPPA Board of Directors. We're excited that there is a
category available <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>for everyone, whether you are a researcher, a
practitioner, a student, or <o:p></o:p></p>
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