Psychological Self-Help, Emotional Healing, Personal Growth, Addiction & Recovery
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Overview
Whether she is infiltrating 12-step meetings and codependency workshops or evaluating the claims of gurus from Shirley MacLaine to M. Scott Peck, Kaminer deftly diagnoses a national movement with a strong tendency toward authoritarianism, a cult of victimhood, and a nasty streak of cover religiosity.Whether she is infiltrating 12-step meetings and codependency workshops or evaluating the claims of gurus from Shirley MacLaine to M. Scott Peck, Kaminer deftly diagnoses a national movement with a strong tendency toward authoritarianism, a cult of victimhood, and a nasty streak of cover religiosity.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Kaminer takes witty potshots at the omnipresent self-help programs and authors that are giving psychotherapists a run for their money. Apr.Library Journal
If you have been purchasing some of the many recent books on codependency, 12-step programs, or recovery, you should buy this strong critique of the self-help movement. Kaminer, a lawyer and journalist, does not address the effectiveness of such programs; she explores their social implications, arguing that they encourage passivity, social isolation, and emotionality, attitudes antithetical to democracy. A distinctive and highly recommended title. For other critiques of the self-help movement, see ``Alternative Titles'' in ``Making Room for the Recovery Boom,'' LJ 5/1/92, p. 49-52.--Ed.-- Mary Ann Hughes, Washington State Univ. Libs., PullmanBook Details
Published
July 30, 1992
Publisher
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1992.
Pages
176
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780201570625