Obituary Review Professor Csikszentmihalyi

Abstract

This review is a tribute to Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihaly who passed away on October 20, 2021 at the age of 87.

Csikszentmihalyi has transcended in Psychology above all because of his work on flow, the experience of flowing, as the concept appears in the translation of his works into Spanish. It is true that he, along with Goleman, are considered the fathers of Positive Psychology.Indeed, the optimal experience, as he defined flow, is identified with the state of happiness and occurs in situations where it is a question of devising or discovering something new, Csikszentmihalyi (1996) tells us, whether it is climbing mountains, playing chess, composinga piece of music or investigate the cosmos.