Overview
- Volume 1 explores art and creativity, tracing Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's studies and discoveries on this theme, across four decades. Features the Systems Model of Creativity
- Volume 2 presents Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's works on attention and flow, exploring the concepts of attention, psychic energy and flow, from a scholarly perspective. Includes an outline and description of the psychometric properties of the Experience Sampling Method or ESM
- Volume 3 of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied
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Keywords
- Art and Creativity
- Attention and Positive Psychology
- Concept of Flow
- Concepts of Attention
- Contributions in Positive Psychology
- Development of Flow
- Development of Identity and Self-Worth
- Experience Sampling Method
- Experiencing Happiness
- Flow and Education
- Flow and Positive Psychology
- Human Development
- Learning to Live the Good Life
- Leisure Time Activities
- Loneliness and Family Life
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Problem Finding Process
- Psychic Energy and Flow
- Systems Model of Creativity
About this book
These volumes bring together a valuable collection of work from four decades of writing by one accomplished and influential scholar, who has academic foundations in psychology and wide ranging experience and collaborations, crossing into a number of other disciplines. Through these volumes the important themes and discoveries in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s work emerge, including studies of creativity, cultural evolution, play and adolescent development. These are big issues of our time and through this series we are able to trace the origins and development of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s work. Readers will discover what inspired his perspective and led to his fresh insights on some of the mysteries of human existence, as well as discovering the insights themselves.
This series will appeal to scholars in psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience and management studies as the work crosses disciplines and is of broad scholarly significance.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is best-known for his theory on FLOW and author of the ground breaking classic work Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
Reviews
''Professor Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi has made numerous contributions to the field of psychology. For instance, he is known as one of the founders of positive psychology. He has also developed one of the most insightful methodological tools, the “Experiencing sampling technique”. However, he is probably best known for his work on the concept of “Flow” where the person becomes one with the task that he or she is doing. I can’t think of no better place to find information on these and other issues than the “Complete work of Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi”. Enjoy the ride!''
Prof. Robert J. Vallerand, Professor of Social Psychology and Human Development, McGill University and Past President of the International Positive Psychology Association.
"This collection is a well-deserved tribute to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Although he is prominently known as the author of Flow Theory, the contributions collected here provide readers with a broader view of his depth of knowledge and perspective. His eclectic approach to psychology is a brilliant example of synergy between humanism and scientific thought, in pursuit of a conceptualization of optimal functioning encompassing the manifold aspects of human complexity".
"This collection is a well-deserved tribute to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Although he is prominently known as the author of Flow Theory, the contributions collected here provide readers with a broader view of his depth of knowledge and perspective. His eclectic approach to psychology is a brilliant example of synergy between humanism and scientific thought, in pursuit of a conceptualization of optimal functioning encompassing the manifold aspects of human complexity".Prof. Antonella Delle Fave, University of Milano, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation "Luigi Sacco" Hospital, Italy, and PastPresident of the International Positive Psychology Association. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Happiness Studies.
‘’Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the true founder of positive psychology, who has devoted his full life to studying and understanding the life worth living, and whose writing has changed the destinies of millions. This set is a real treasure to keep and to read over and over.’’
Dr. Ilona Boniwell, Director - Positran / Associate Professor - Ecole Centrale Paris, France
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Authors: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
Copyright Information: 0b01e832800ef51f 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 600