Anti Self-help and Actualisation (SHAM) meme

by limbic on December 30, 2005

Three new (and not so new) books attacking the self-help phenomenon:

The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, Be a Good Blamer, and Throttle Your Inner Child by Paul Pearsall

Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age  by Frank Furedi

SHAM: How the Gurus of the Self-Help Movement Make Us Helpless  by Steve Salerno

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