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Optimal experience

psychological studies of flow in consciousness

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

Some ten years ago the first publications reporting studies of what we have called the "flow experience" appeared in print, beginning with an article in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and then the book Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (Csikszentmihalyi 1975a, 1975b).

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Consciousness”. Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the subtitle, “Consciousness” in the subject metadata, and “Consciousness” in the edition subtitle.

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psychological studies of flow in consciousness

Open Library record

1988Cambridge University PressEnglish
  • 9780521342889
  • 0521342880
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  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL17700902W
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