Human learned helplessness

Drawing on a quarter century of inquiry, this volume pulls together nearly all the published work on learned helplessness, along with some data that has never appeared in print, and organizes it into one unified theory. The author explains the phenomenon's many layers by examining the thinking, motivation, and emotion involved, then lays out a fresh coping-based approach for how people respond to events they cannot control. Scholars working in this area are likely to treat it as a central point of reference for years to come.