Ask the Library: Reference

The library has several books on these topics. You can request them through MARINet or come in to the library to check them out:

Stern, D. N. (2002). The first relationship: Infant and mother. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press

Nussbaum, M. C. (2001). Upheavals of thought: The intelligence of emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mercer, R. T., Nichols, E. G., & Doyle, G. C. (1989). Transitions in a woman's life: Major life events in developmental context. New York: Springer Pub. Co.

Rich, A. (1986). Of woman born: Motherhood as experience and institution. New York: Norton.

Keyes, C. L. M., & Haidt, J. (2003). Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Aspinwall, L. G., & Staudinger, U. M. (2003). A psychology of human strengths: Fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Snyder, C. R., & Lopez, S. J. (2002). Handbook of positive psychology. Oxford [England: Oxford University Press

Peterson, C. (2006). A primer in positive psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.