Psychiatry, as a discipline, has traditionally focused on identifying and treating what is wrong, but positive psychiatry integrates strengths and well-being to promote flourishing. Positive Psychiatry offers a practical and deeply human approach to mental health care—one that moves beyond treating illness alone to help individuals and families build resilience, meaning, connection, and lifelong well-being. Rooted in philosophical traditions of human flourishing and informed by advances in neuroscience, behavioral science, and public health, positive psychiatry integrates strengths-based approaches into clinical care.

This second edition of Positive Psychiatry builds on the first edition to detail how positive psychiatry can be applied fully and effectively in clinical practice. The book explores selected positive psychological constructs for which the empirical, clinical, and translational literature has substantially advanced over the past decade.

Organized in four parts, this guide examines

• The human strengths and values at the heart of positive psychiatry, including resilience, posttraumatic growth, wisdom, and the spiritual and religious foundations of well-being;
• Practical approaches to quality-of-life screening, lifestyle-based care, and therapeutic applications, including digital innovations;
• How positive psychological and social processes interact with biological pathways, stress physiology, exposures, and developmental environments to influence trajectories of mental health and functioning; and
• The ways in which the principles of positive psychiatry can inform policies, health systems, and training programs across diverse populations and settings.

Featuring contributions from more than 30 experts, this edition features key points that support quick reference, suggested readings that encourage further study, and clinical vignettes that translate essential concepts into practice. Clear, current, and clinically relevant, Positive Psychiatry is an indispensable guide for clinicians and researchers committed to helping individuals and communities move from illness toward recovery, resilience, and flourishing.