A Primer in Positive Psychology

By: Richard Failla, Chief Executive Officer

Richard Failla

If you listen to the news it is very easy to feel like the world is a place of endless suffering, and no matter what you do it will not change the negativity that is everywhere in our lives. At Research Psychiatric Center we see what happens when people give up and decide that life is not worth living and they are admitted because of thoughts of suicide.

Over the years there has been much focus on psychopathology but very little focus on positive psychology.