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A Critical Study of Self-Help and Self-Improvement Practices [electronic resource] : Textual, Discursive, and Ethnographic Perspectives
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherry, Scott.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Change (Psychology).
- Self.
- Self-help techniques.
- Local Subjects:
- Change (Psychology).
- Self.
- Self-help techniques.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contemporary cultural phenomenon of self-help is highly visible and yet inadequately understood. This study explores the seeming polarization of self-help - the splitting of the individual (the self) and the collective (the help) - through detailed ethnographic examination of self-help books and self-help groups. It relates these "poles" by exploring a central and connecting event, hypothesized as the hyphen in self-help, a workshop for a group of readers led by a self-help book author.
- Contents:
- 20120213163006899.pdf; Dr Scott Cherry Mellen Press proofread done July 2011; Table of Contents; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2068-1
- OCLC:
- 778339782
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