Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Perennial, Paperback, Published March 1991, 303 pages, ISBN 0060920432 | List Price: $14.00
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Table of Contents
Part One: Happiness Revisited
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Overview
Chapter 3. The Roots of Discontent
Chapter 4. The Shields of Culture
Chapter 5. Reclaiming Experience
Chapter 6. Paths of Liberation
Part Two: The Anatomy of Consciousness
Chapter 7. The Limits of Consciousness
Chapter 8. Attention as Psychic Energy
Chapter 9. Enter the Self
Chapter 10. Disorder in Consciousness: Psychic Entropy
Chapter 11. Order in Consciousness: Flow
Chapter 12. Complexity and the Growth of the Self
Part Three: Enjoyment and the Quality of Life
Chapter 13. Pleasure and Enjoyment
Chapter 14. The Elements of Enjoyment
Chapter 15. The Autotelic Experience
Part Four: The Conditions of Flow
Chapter 16. Flow Activities
Chapter 17. Flow and Culture
Chapter 18. The Autotelic Personality
Chapter 19. The People of Flow
Part Five: The Body In Flow
Chapter 20. Higher, Faster, Stronger
Chapter 21. The Joys of Movement
Chapter 22. Sex as Flow
Chapter 23. The Ultimate Control: Yoga and the Martial Arts
Chapter 24. Flow Through the Senses: The Joys of Seeing
Chapter 25. The Flow of Music
Chapter 26. The Joys of Tasting
Part Six: The Flow of Thought
Chapter 27. The Mother of Science
Chapter 28. The Rules of the Games of the Mind
Chapter 29. The Play of Words
Chapter 30. Befriending Clio
Chapter 31. The Delights of Science
Chapter 32. Loving Wisdom
Chapter 33. Amateurs and Professionals
Chapter 34. The Challenge of Lifelong Learning
Part Seven: Work as Flow
Chapter 35. Autotelic Workers
Chapter 36. Autotelic Jobs
Chapter 37. The Paradox of Work
Chapter 38. The Waste of Free Time
Part Eight: Enjoying Solitude and Other People
Chapter 39. The Conflict Between Being Alone and Being With Others
Chapter 40. The Pain of Loneliness
Chapter 41. Taming Solitude
Chapter 42. Flow and the Family
Chapter 43. Enjoying Friends
Chapter 44. The Wider Community
Part Nine: Cheating Chaos
Chapter 45. Tragedies Transformed
Chapter 46. Coping With Stress
Chapter 47. The Power of Dissipative Structures
Chapter 48. The Autotelic Self: A Summary
Part Ten: The Making of Meaning
Chapter 49. What Meaning Means
Chapter 50. Cultivating Purpose
Chapter 51. Forging Resolve
Chapter 52. Recovering Harmony
Chapter 53. The Unification of Meaning in Life Themes
About the Author
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is professor and former chairman of the Department
of Psychology at the University of Chicago.
His previous books include Flow and The Evolving Self. Flow was
shown on the 1993 NBC Super Bowl broadcast as the book that inspired Jimmy Johnson,
then coach of the Dallas Cowboys. It was also a selection of the Book-of-the-Month
Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club.
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