Psychology Today | 27.02.2026 04:09
Nearly 75 years ago, in 1952, when positive psychology set off a wave of religiously inspired self-help in the U.S. with the release of Norman Vincent Peale’s popular bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking, the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich asked in war-torn Austria, in a now-famous exchange with his colleague Kurt Eissler, “Where does the misery come from?”
