Paul Wong || Existential Positive Psychology

The Psychology Podcast

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today it’s a great honor to chat with the legendary Paul Wong on the podcast. Dr. Wong is Professor Emeritus of Trent University. He’s a fellow of APA and CPA and president of the International Network on Personal Meaning and the Meaning-Centered Counselling Institute Inc. Editor of the International Journal of Existential Positive Psychology, he’s also edited two influential volumes on The Human Quest for Meaning. A prolific writer, he is one of the most cited existential and positive psychologists. The originator of Meaning Therapy and International Meaning Conferences, he has been invited to give keynotes and meaning therapy workshops worldwide. Dr. Wong is the recipient of the Carl Rogers Award from the Society for Humanistic Psychology.

Topics:

· Dr. Wong’s childhood and upbringing

· Animal learning research: optimism vs. helplessness

· Locus of control is not a dichotomy

· The unheard cry of a successful Asian psychologist

· Positive Psychology 2.0

· Embracing the dark side to enhance well-being

· Dual-systems model of what makes life worth living

· Agency, spirituality, and community contribute meaning

· How to find meaning in life

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0:00.0	Today, it's a great honor to chat with the legendary Paul Wong on the podcast.
0:19.4	Dr. Wong is Professor Emeritus of Trent University.
0:22.6	He's a fellow of APA and CPA and President of the International Network on Personal Meaning
0:27.4	and the Meeting Center at Counseling Institute Inc.
0:30.2	Editor of the International Journal of the Existential Positive Psychology.
0:33.5	He has also edited two influential volumes on the Human Quest for Meaning.
0:37.2	A prolific writer, he is one of the most cited existential and positive psychologists.
0:41.2	The originator of Meaning Therapy and International Meaning Conferences.
0:44.5	He has been invited to give keynotes and meeting therapy workshops worldwide.
0:48.5	Dr. Wong is the recipient of the Call Rodgers Award from the Society for Humanistic Psychology.
0:55.4	Dr. Wong, what an honor it is to chat with you today.
0:58.7	Me too.
1:00.5	Where should we even begin?
1:02.6	I'll tell you, I was looking through all of your papers going all the way back
1:08.6	trying to trace the development of your research and thinking,
1:12.7	going all the back to work with rats.
1:15.8	Wow, in the 70s, in the 70s, the effect of food deprivation and imprinting
1:22.2	on the behavior of young domestic chicks.
1:24.6	I think that might have been one of your first papers, 1971.
1:28.9	Well, no, my, my, where to go before that?
1:32.7	That was.
1:33.7	60s?
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