A new approach to building mental resilience and maximizing personal potential.
By Arnon Levy Ph.D.

For historical reasons, clinical psychology and psychotherapy have evolved within the medical model that was aimed at healing mental sicknesses and neurotic and dysfunctional behaviors. Even now, the medical model dominates theories about the human psyche whose modern roots began with the groundbreaking insights of Freud. Although many changes have taken place since the days of Freud, the central conceptions he shaped are still dominant to this day. This fact is quite amazing as it is difficult to exaggerate the tremendous distance between the Victorian culture in which Freud grew up and acted and the internet culture of today.
 
Towards the last quarter of the twentieth century, the field of positive psychology (PP) burst into psychology and the general public’s awareness. PP challenged the medical model and set the goal of exploring the characteristics that “make life worth living.”