The Review of M. Csikszentmihalyi's Book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”

Nartova-Bochaver S.K.

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Clinical Psychology and Special Education
2012. Vol. 1, no. 1
ISSN: 2304-0394 (online)

The Review of M. Csikszentmihalyi's Book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” ²⁴²⁰

Nartova-Bochaver S.K.
Doctor of Psychology, Professor of the School of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8061-4154
e-mail: s-nartova@yandex.ru

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New for the Russian psychology concepts of “flow”, “optimal experience”, and foundations by M. Csikszentmihalyi are analyzed in the article. Their functions, specific features, connections with motivation, aim and other phenomena are discussed. The complex definition of the “flow” to integrate into practical psychology is proposed in article.

Keywords: flow, happiness, optimal experience, motivation, positive psychology, review, self-determination

Column: Book review

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Nartova-Bochaver S.K. The Review of M. Csikszentmihalyi's Book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” [Elektronnyi resurs]. Klinicheskaia i spetsial'naia psikhologiia = Clinical Psychology and Special Education, 2012. Vol. 1, no. 1 (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)