Positive psychology advocates exploring human virtues, such as love, forgiveness, gratitude, wisdom and optimism, so many traditional branches of psychology, such as clinical psychology, counseling psychology, social psychology, personality psychology and health psychology, can turn their attention to the study of positive aspects of human nature under the paradigm of positive psychology.
Positive psychology is a new research field of American psychology. The pioneers were psychologists seligman and Csikzentmihalyi. Since 1997, when seligman became the chairman of APA, he put forward the viewpoint of "positive psychology", more and more psychologists began to set foot in this research field, and gradually formed a positive psychology movement. As a branch of psychology, positive psychology mainly studies the most ideal human function scientifically, and its goal is to find out the factors that make individuals, groups and society develop well, and use these factors to improve human health, happiness and social prosperity.
Positive psychotherapy's uniqueness lies in the use of intuition and imagination in the treatment process, the use of stories as a medium between therapists and patients, and the emphasis on stimulating patients' subjective initiative, so that patients can eventually become active therapists in the environment.