Positive Psychology. Martin Seligman's campaign to establish a psychology that enhances creative and rich human states, as well as treats negative and pathological states, proceeds apace. In this Edge interview,he speculates interesting on drugs - and the p-word pops up:
a pharmacology of pleasure is not science fiction, and I expect that as positive psychology matures our drug company friends will get interested in it. There are shortcuts to pleasure, and if you play with the relevant neural circuits, those are shortcuts.Whether our moral majority friends will be happy about the New Soma is another question...
Update: more positive psychology from the Observer.
