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Perhaps then the greatest failing of this deluge of positive psychology books is not that they (i) the complexity typical of psychology in general—and in this case replace it with a breezy glibness—but that they dispense advice that is so (ii) and littered with platitudes as to be bereft of the very succor the public requires during our (iii) times.