... implications The study provides guidelines for psychobiographical and autoethnographical researchers on self-reflection regarding psychobiographical subject choice and the positive psychological potential of both psychobiography and autoethnography. Social implications Psychobiography and autoethnography...

... Autoethnography Positive psychology Flourishing Redemptive ropes Transcendent threads Mental health Flourishing intersects each of the previous articles in this series and in an associated interview with Corey Keyes (Keyes and Gonot-Schoupinsky, 2025). Richard Cowden’s contributions to the literature...

... and positive psychology theories. Findings Data from the interviews are presented here along with an exploration and discussion of the well-being benefits of writing one’s story. The authors provide honest, heartfelt and at times intense reflections. Many of the authors recounted the well-being benefits...

...-Schoupinsky fng1ext@bolton.ac.uk © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Flourishing Languishing Positive psychology Meaning Mental health Depression Alcoholism Corey L.M. Keyes, Professor Emeritus of sociology at Emory...

... earliest memories. And things got worse when the first oddities in the behavior of my mother, who was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, began. Positive autoethnography Positive psychology Spirituality Autoethnography Meaning Mental health In this positive autoethnographic case study, Dr...

...René Proyer; Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky Purpose The purpose of this paper is to invite Professor René Proyer, a leading positive psychologist and authority on play, to tell his story, share highlights from his research and insights into playfulness, mental health and positive psychology. Design...

... and sociologists, and the public is recommended. Originality/value Dr. Rich is a psychologist with a positive psychology orientation who has called for more qualitative and mixed-methods research in positive psychology. Here, he shares with us multiple insights and his research including in the areas of mental...

... and in the study of humility. Forgiveness Humility Relationships Positive psychology Virtues Autoethnography Commonwealth Emeritus Professor Everett J. Worthington Jr. (who invites us to call him Ev) is a world-renowned positive psychologist and expert on forgiveness. Here, he shares highlights...

... autoethnographic case study. Mayer uses positive autoethnography to reflect on mental health, positive psychology and leadership across the life span. The first author also responds to ten questions. Findings Leadership can be developed and appreciated in others. Leadership can be a positive and transformative...

... re-use rights only Positive psychology Autoethnography Positive ageing Positive autoethnography Resilience Laughter As often as possible, I walked to the home of my grandmother whose love was unconditional and profoundly healing. She was a role model for spending time reading...

... settings. An integrative approach is particularly urgent given the escalating mental health crisis among young people. References Boniwell , I. and Zimbardo , P.G. (2015), “ Balancing time perspective in pursuit of optimal functioning. Positive psychology in practice: promoting human...

...Helena Á Marujo Purpose This underscores individual and social implications for how mental disorders and mental well-being are constructed, conceived of and treated. Further, this paper aims to examine positive psychology’s role in supporting the advancement of a broader systemic and contextual...

... only Motherhood Borderline personality disorder Sectioning Positive psychology Diagnosis First-hand narrative Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an incredibly complex diagnosis, in part due to frequent co-morbidity with other diagnoses such as psychosis (West et al...

... the authors as to the practicalities and benefits of associating the qualitative approach of autoethnography with the field of positive psychology. Findings PosAE is proposed to encourage writers to actively reflect on the importance for themselves, and their readers, of including positive narrative...

... be contacted at: robert.hurst.24@gmail.com © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Motherhood Social services Custody Positive psychology Poetry First-hand narrative Since I began curating Remarkable Lives (Carson and Hurst...

... shown similar disparities between people with mental health problems and others. Practical implications Professor Seligman has claimed that improving levels of flourishing is the main aim of positive psychology. The present study suggests this may be especially challenging for people with mental...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Positive psychology Education Recovery Hope Eating disorders Anorexia Jana was one of those students who sat at the front of the class and always asked questions. She completed her assignments before other students and handed in her final...

... focused too much on symptom reduction and not enough on helping people find meaning and purpose. Social implications – Rachel asks the question is Positive Psychology a movement for all or is it just for the elite? Originality/value – Rachel is someone who has discovered for herself...

...Pawel D. Mankiewicz; David M. Gresswell; Colin Turner Purpose This paper seeks to extend the focus of positive psychology research to individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) to address an aspect of social exclusion experienced by this disadvantaged client group. Design/methodology/approach...