A Critical Study of Self-Help and Self-Improvement Practices : Textual, Discursive, and Ethnographic Perspectives.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cherry, Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
Temas:
Self-help techniques.
Self.
Change (Psychology)
Ego (Psychology)
Autodéveloppement.
Moi (Psychologie)
Changement (Psychologie)
PSYCHOLOGY > Applied Psychology.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > General.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > Happiness.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > Success.
Social Sciences.
Psychology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (350 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780773420687
0773420681

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