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Psychiatry has developed a number of tools to help manage symptoms of mental disorders, broadly categorized as psychotherapy, or talk therapy , and psychopharmacology, or medications . One question left open in this regard, though, is what to do after those symptoms are controlled? How can those with depression be helped to build a better life after the remission of symptoms? Weaving together Positive Psychology and Aristotelian philosophy, this book details an approach to creating a path towards a flourishing life. Building on the two translations of the Greek term Arete , virtue and excellence, it links Aristotle's ideas to those of Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology, and Howard Gardner, a proponent of the Multiple Intelligences Theory.

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Erick Messias completed medical school and practiced family medicine in rural areas in Brazil, before moving to Baltimore for residency training. He completed a psychiatry residency at the University of Maryland in 2001, and preventive medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003. While at the latter, he received a Master's in Public Health and a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology. He has published over 40 journal articles and several book chapters, and has edited a volume on schizophrenia for psychiatrists. He is currently the Associate Dean for Faculty Affair for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, in Little Rock, USA.

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