Author

Books by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. Born in Hungary and displaced by World War II, he became interested in questions of happiness and meaning through firsthand experience of social collapse. He spent forty years studying optimal experience, developing the Experience Sampling Method, and writing books that translate his research for general readers. Flow, first published in 1990, remains his most widely read work and one of the most cited books in positive psychology.