- Psychology, Psychological literature, Self-help techniques, Recovery movement
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.
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Spare, cool, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Wendy Kaminer
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley, Vintage Books, Soapbox Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780201570625
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