I recently read Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book entitled Bright-Sided, which contains a critique of the cult of positive thinking that has swept corporate America.

Corporations spend a good deal of money promoting positive thinking in their workforces. Consider the benefits of positive thinking from a profit perspective: it makes employees work harder; helps employees to cope (however delusionally) with the loneliness and alienation that accompanies the pressures and long hours of compan...