Lore De Silvestri R.’s Reviews > Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification > Status Update
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“Insurance companies and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) reimburse the treatment of disorders but certainly not the promotion of happiness and fulfillment. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) should really be called the National Institute of Mental Illness because it devotes but a fraction of its research budget to mental health.”
— Jan 21, 2026 04:37PM
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Lore De Silvestri R.
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“With recent incarnations of the DSM and ICD, matters have begun to change, but only for half of the landscape of the human condition. We can now describe and measure much of what is wrong with people, but what about those things that are right? Nothing comparable to the DSM or ICD exists for the good life.”
— Jan 21, 2026 04:36PM
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“We believe that good character can be cultivated, but to do so, we need conceptual and empirical tools to craft and evaluate interventions.”
— Jan 21, 2026 04:27PM
