Dimensions of Well-being

Antonella Delle Fave assembled an impressive international roster for this 2006 FrancoAngeli volume, covering positive psychology research across cultural contexts, lifespan development, education, work, psychotherapy, and even connections between well-being and art, philosophy, and religion. The interdisciplinary breadth is the book's real distinction — it reaches beyond standard positive psychology frameworks in useful ways. The honest caveat is that FrancoAngeli's primarily Italian distribution limits the book's visibility in English-language academic markets, and the academic density makes it inaccessible to non-specialists. Some assumptions baked into early positive psychology have also been revisited since 2006. For researchers in the field, a credible and substantive collection worth tracking down.