Martin Seligman

As of late 2005, Martin E.P. Seligman is Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology. At the Department, he was previously the Director of the Clinical Training Program. Seligman has served as President of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division of Clinical Psychology. In 1996, Seligman was elected President of the APA by the widest margin in its history. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Prevention and Treatment magazine (the APA electronic journal), is on the Board of Advisors of Parents Magazine, and is Chairman of the Scientific Board at Foresight, Inc.

Seligman is probably best known for his work on the idea of "learned helplessness," and more recently, for his contributions to and leadership in the field of Positive Psychology.

Seligman is also a best selling author, writing about Positive Psychology topics such as The Optimistic Child, Learned Optimism, and, in 2002, Authentic Happiness. He also wrote What You Can Change and What You Can't.

Books

• Seligman, M.E.P. and Hager, J. (Eds.). (1972). Biological Boundaries of Learning. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1975). Helplessness: On depression, development, and death. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
• Maser, J. and Seligman, M.E.P. (1977)(Eds.), Psychopathology: Experimental Models. San Francisco:W.H. Freeman
• D. Garber, J., & Seligman, M.E.P. (Eds.). (1980). Human helplessness: theory and applications. New York: Academic Press.
• Seligman, M.E.P. (1990). Learned Optimism. New York: Knopf. (reissue edition, 1998, Free Press, ISBN 0671019112)
• Seligman, M.E.P. (1993). What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0679410244 (Paperback reprint edition, 1995, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0449909719)
• Peterson, C., Maier, S., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1993). Learned helplessness: A theory for the age of personal control. New York: Oxford.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1994). What you can change and what you can't. New York: Knopf.
• Buchanan, G., & Seligman, M.E.P. (Eds.). (1995). Explanatory style. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
• Seligman, M.E.P., Reivich, K., Jaycox, L., & Gillham, J. (1996). The Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience. New York: Houghton Mifflin. (Paperback edition, 1996, Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 0060977094)
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1998). Learned optimism. (2d ed.). New York: Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster). First pub (1990). ISBN 0671019112
• Seligman, M. E. P., & Rosenhan, D. L. (1998). [[Abnormality (book)|Abnormality. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Seligman, M. E. P., Walker, E., & Rosenhan, D. L. (2001). Abnormal psychology. (4th ed.) New York: W.W. Norton.
• R. Chirot, D., & Seligman, M.E.P. (Eds.) (2001). Ethnopolitical warfare: Causes, consequences, and possible solutions. Washington, D.C.: APA Press.
• Seligman, M.E.P. (2002). Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0743222970 (Paperback edition, 2004, Free Press, ISBN 0743222989)

Book Chapters

• Isaacowitz, D. M., & Seligman, M. E. P. (in press). Cognitive styles and well-being in adulthood and old age. In M. H. Bornstein, L. Davidson, C. L. M. Keyes, K. A. *Moore, & The Center for Child Well-being (Eds.). Well-being: Positive development across the life course. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (2002).
• Seligman, M. E. P. (2001). Positive Psychology, Positive Prevention, and Positive Therapy. In C.R. Snyder, & S.J. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of Positive Psychology, Cary, NC: Oxford University Press.
• Seligman, M. E. P., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2000). Learned helplessness. In G. Fink, (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Stress. (pp. 599-603). San Diego: Academic Press.
• Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1999). Psychology: 2000 Yearbook of science and the future. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• Shatte, A. J., Reivich, K., Gillham, J. E., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1999). Learned optimism in children. In C.R. Snyder (Ed.), The Psychology of Coping. Oxford University Press.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1994). What you can change & what you cannot change. In Duffy, K.G. (Ed.). (1997). Annual editions: Personal growth and behavior. (pp. 188-195). Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.
• Gillham, J. E., Shatte, A. J., Reivich, K. J., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1998). Optimism, pessimism, and explanatory style. In E.C. Chang (Ed.), Optimism and pessimism. Washington, D.C.: APA Press.
• Seligman, H. E. P., Peterson, C., Schulman, P., & Castellon, C. (1992). The explanatory style scoring manual. In C.P. Smith (Ed.), Motivation and personality: Handbook of thematic content analysis. Cambridge University Press, 383.
• Burns, M. O., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1991). Explanatory style, helplessness, and depression. In C.R. Snyder, & D.R. Forsyths (Eds.), Handbook of social and clinical psychology. New York: Pergamon Press, 267-284.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1989). Explanatory style: Predicting depression, achievement, and health. In M.D. Yapko (Ed.), Brief therapy approaches to treating anxiety and depression. N.Y.: Brunner/Mazel, Inc., 5-32.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1989). Why is there so much depression today? The waxing of the individual and the waning of the commons. In Ingram, R.E. (Ed.). (1990). Contemporary psychological approaches to depression: Theory, research and treatment. (pp. 1-9). New York: Plenum Publishing.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1988). Competing theories of panic. In S.J. Rachman, & J. Maser (Eds.),Panic: Psychological perspectives. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 321-329.
• Seligman, M. E. P., Kamen, L. P., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (1988). Explanatory style across the life-span: Achievement and health. In E.M. Hetherington, R.M. Lerner, & M. Perlmutter (Eds.), Child development in life-span perspective. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 91-114.
• Seligman, M. E. P., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (1987). Explanatory style and depression. In D. Magnusson, & A. Ohman, (Eds.), Psychopathology: An interactional perspective. New York: Academic Press, 125-139.
• Kamen, L., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1987). Explanatory style and health. In M. Johnston, & T. Marteau (Eds.), Current psychological research and reviews: Special issue on health psychology, 6, 207-218 Self-Administered training in the CAVE technique: Content analysis of verbatim explanations.
• Seligman, M. E. P., & Peterson, C. (1986). A learned helplessness perspective on childhood depression: Theory and research. In M. Rutter, C.E. Izard, & P. Read (Eds.), Depression in young people: Developmental and clinical perspectives. New York: Guilford, 223-249.
• Seligman, M. E. P., & Visintainer, M. A. (1985). Tumor rejection and early experience of uncontrollable shock in the rat. In F.R. Brush, & J.B. Overmier (Eds.), Affect, conditioning, and cognition: Essays on the determinants of behavior. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 203-210.
• Seligman, M. E. P., & Elder, G. (1985). Learned helplessness and life-span development. In A. Sorenson, F. Weinert, Sherrod (Eds.), Human development and the life course: Multidisciplinary perspectives. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 377-427.
• Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1985). The learned helplessness model of depression: Current status of theory and research. In E.E. Beckman, & W.R. Leber (Eds.), Handbook of depression: Treatment, assessment and research. Homewood, IL: Dorsey, 914-939.
• Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1984). Hilflosigkeit, Attributionsstil, und Depression. In F.E. Weinert, & Rainer H. Kluwe (Eds.), Metakognition, motivation, und lernen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 164-191. Translation: Helplessness and attributional style in depression. In F. Weinert, & R.H. Kluwe (Eds.), Metacognition, motivation, and understanding. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, 1987, 185-216.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1987). Translation: Helplessness and attributional style in depression. In F. Weinert, & R.H. Kluwe (Eds.), Metacognition, motivation, and understanding. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, (1987), 185-216.
• Miller, W. R., Rosellini, R. A., and Seligman, M. E. P. (1977). Depression. In Maser, J. and Seligman, M.E.P. (Eds.), Psychopathology: Experimental Models. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 104-130.
• Abramson, L. Y. and Seligman, M. E. P. (1977). Modeling psychopathology in the laboratory: History and rationale. In Maser, J. and Seligman, M.E.P. (Eds.), Psychopathology: Experimental Models. San Francisco:W.H. Freeman, 1-26.
• Seligman, M. E. P. and Binik, Y. M. (1977). The safety signal hypothesis. In H. Davis and H. Hurwitz (Eds.), Pavlovian-Operant Interactions. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 165-187.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1977). Reversing learned helplessness and depression. In P. Zimbardo, Psychology and Life (11(th) Edition). Glenview, IL: Scott-Foresman.
• Seligman, M. E. P. (1977). Helplessness. In B. Wolman (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Neurology. New York: Human Sciences, 5, 338.

Papers

Abramson, L. Y., Seligman M. E. P. and Teasdale J. D. (1978) Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 87, 49-74

External links

• "Eudaemonia, the Good Life: A Talk with Martin Seligman", an article wherein Seligman speaks extensively on the topic of eudaemonia, about which some consider him an expert
• "The Positive Psychology Center", a website devoted to positive psychology. Martin Seligman is director of the Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Authentic Happiness, includes 18 free online questionnaires on various aspects of happiness.

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