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Practical and research-based alternative solutions to difficult social problems (e.g. drug & alcohol abuse, recidivism), and for changing self-perception through "story editing" and behaviorally forced cognitive dissonance.

Positive Psychology with the eye of an outcomes researcher. Reminds me of books like Freakonomics and others that take a harder analytical approach to "common sense" practices.

Counter-factual happiness journal > happiness journal

Strategies for quickening coping with negatives, lengthening pleasure of positives. A View from Nowhere analytical approach to understand events and thereby dampen their emotional salience (for either polarity).

Makes explicit distinction between this book and non-scientific self-help genre books for approaches to personal change.

Uses the Semmelweis anecdote I just read in SuperFreakonomics too

Behavioral change and misguided therapeutic practice