ABSTRACT
Since the Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) course at the University of Pennsylvania admitted its first cohort of students in 2005, more than a thousand people have graduated from the various master’s level and other graduate diploma programs in positive psychology at universities worldwide, such as those at the University of East London (UEL) and Bucks New University in the UK, the University of Aarhus in Denmark, or the University of Melbourne in Australia. Even in France, where psychoanalysis of both the Freudian & Lacanian varieties still holds sway (see Kalkin, Chapter 11 in this volume, for an intriguing exploration of the relation between psychoanalysis and positive psychology), a small group of students started studying for the country’s first postgraduate positive psychology diploma at the Université Pierre Mendès-France in Grenoble in the fall of 2015.
