Translating happiness : a cross-cultural lexicon of well-being

• Tác giả: Tim Lomas
• ISBN-10: 0262344637
• ISBN-13: 978-0262344630
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 158 Applied psychology
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 252022
• Chủ đề: 1. Happiness; 2. Interpersonal relations; 3. Language and emotions; 4. Psycholinguistics; 5. Well-being--Psychological aspects

Tóm tắt

How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being - from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch - can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference?