Cognitive Remediation Journal 2014, 3(1):14-24 | DOI: 10.5507/crj.2014.002

Schema-inhibitors of Happiness and their Remediation

Jiří Kulka
Doc. PhDr. Mgr. et Mgr. Jiří Kulka, CSc., director of the Institute for Positive System Psychotherapy ARCANA, Brno, kulka@arcana.cz, jkulka50@icloud.com

The author describes his own concept of happiness, which he has derived from an original theory of personality. Personality structure consists of four subsystems: motivational, executive, egotic, and character. The definition of happiness as a synergic unity of joy, bliss, self-actualization, and meaning comes from the concept of saturation of these personality substructures. Further he focuses on factors which hinder life happiness and shows the possibility to implement schema therapy in the area of positive psychotherapy. Both therapeutic systems can be interconnected in the following manner; that is we can use schemas (Young et al.) to explain the origin of conflicts (Peseschkian).

Keywords: happiness; structure of personality; motivational, executive, egotic, and character subsystem; joy, bliss, self-realization, sense/meaning; schema therapy; positive psychotherapy

Received: October 10, 2013; Accepted: March 12, 2014; Published: March 19, 2014  Show citation

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Kulka J. Schema-inhibitors of Happiness and their Remediation. Cogn. Remediat. J. 2014;3(1):14-24. doi: 10.5507/crj.2014.002.
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