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Author Salerno, Steve.

Title SHAM : how the self-help movement made America helpless / Steve Salerno.

Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  155.2 Sa32s 2005    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  158.1 Sal    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 273 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and index.
Contents Introduction : hopelessly hooked on help -- The culprits. How we got here, wherever here is -- False prophets, false profits -- Dr. Phil McGraw : absolute power -- Tony Robbins : leaps (and bounds) of faith -- "Ya gotta want it!" -- Put me in, coach, I'm ready to pay -- Killer performances : the rise of the contrepreneur -- The consequences. You are all diseased -- Looking for love ... on all the wrong bases? -- I'm OK, you're ... how do you spell OK again? -- Patient, heal thyself -- Conclusion : a SHAM society.
Subject McGraw, Phillip C., 1950-
Robbins, Anthony.
Self-help groups.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Recovery movement.
ISBN 1400054095

 
    
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