I'm dysfunctional, you're dysfunctional: the recovery movement and other self-help fashions

Wendy Kaminer

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Summary:: A strong critique of today's Recovery Movement--and of the entire self-help tradition; shows how America's obsession with self-help lowers our intellectual standards and undermines our capacity for political action--Jacket.
Table of Contents:: Chances are, you're codependent too: recovery books
Testifying: television
Don't worry, be happy: positive thinking to est
In step: support groups
The recovery boutique: workshopping
Stop making sense: new age
God is a good parent too: self-help and popular theology
Conclusion: the political problem of self-help, which the author has no idea how to solve.
Author/Creator:: Kaminer, Wendy
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Main Work:: I'm dysfunctional, you're dysfunctional: the recovery movement and other self-help fashions [by Kaminer, W.]
Related Works:: I am dysfunctional, you are dysfunctional
Subjects:: Self-help techniques — United States
Psychological literature — United States
Psychology — United States
Recovery movement — United States
Self-help techniques
Psychological literature
Psychology
Recovery movement
United States
General Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index.
Physical Description:: ix, 180 pages ; 22 cm
Call Numbers:: BF632 .K36 1992
ISBNs:: 0201570629
9780201570625
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 91042471
OCLC Numbers:: 24872101