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.
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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psychological studies of flow in consciousness Open Library record | 1988 | Cambridge University Press | English |
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