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

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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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Self-help techniques.
	Self-help techniques.
	Self.
	Self.
	Change (Psychology)
	Change (Psychology)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Cherry, Scott. A Critical Study of Self-Help and Self-Improvement Practices : Textual, Discursive, and Ethnographic Perspectives. Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, ©2011 9780773415768
ISBN	9780773420687 (electronic book)
	0773420681 (electronic book)