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Sham: How the Gurus of the Self-Help Movement Make Us Helpless

Sham: How the Gurus of the Self-Help Movement Make Us Helpless


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Based on Steve Salerno's investigative reporting - and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading "lifestyle" publisher - "Sham", shows how thinly credentialed "experts" now dispense worthless or even counterproductive advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans alone spend upwards of $8 billion every year on self-help programmes and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries. "Sham" demonstrates how the self-help movement's core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of Western life - the home, the workplace, the schools and more. Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the "empowering" message that dominates self-help today proves just as damaging as the blame-shifting rhetoric of the "Recovery" movement. "Sham" reveals: how society is getting sick from self-help, the hyping of hope, and overdosing on Oprah; the inside story on the biggest names in the industry from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Anthony Robbins to John Gray; how the 'gurus' target the same people time and again without ever helping them; how the Recovery movement has eradicated personal responsibility by labelling just about anything - from drug abuse to "sex addiction" to shoplifting - a dysfunction or disease; how self-help rhetoric has pushed people away from proven medical treatments by persuading them that they can cure themselves through sheer application of will. "Sham" exposes how the Self-Help and Actualization industry has created its own class of perpetual victims - people dependent on self-help.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Hopelessly Hooked on Help 1. How We Got Here - Wherever Here Is 2. False Prophets, False Profits 3. Dr. Phil McGraw: Absolute Power 4. Tony Robbins: Leaps (and Bounds) of Faith 5. "Ya Gotta Want It!" 6. Put Me in, Coach, I'm Ready to Pay 7. Killer Performances: The Rise of the Contrepreneur Part 2 8. You Are All Diseased 9. Looking for Love ... on All the Wrong Bases? 10. I'm OK, You're ... How Do You Spell OK Again? 11. Patient, Heal Thyself Conclusion: A SHAM Society

About the Author :
Steve Salerno has for the past two decades been a freelance feature writer, essayist, and journalist. His articles have appeared in publications such as Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, Esquire and the Wall Street Journal. As a previous editor at Rodale Inc., the publisher of Men's Health magazine and numerous lifestyle and inspirational books, Salerno got an inside look at how the self-help industry operates.

Review :
"Funny, naughty, and wise, Steve Salerno's SHAM is the must-read antidote to Dr. Phil, Tony Robbins, and the whole cracked pot of pop psychology." Greg Critser, author of Fat Land; "In an age of self-help, why are so many of us helpless? Why do so many self-help gurus, from Dr. Phil on down, create followers rather than independent souls? Steve Salerno exposes the SHAM with ruthless honesty destined to make more than a few people angry. Its subtitle should be: Who is Analyzing the Analysts?" Dr. Michael Hurd, author of Effective Therapy and Grow Up America!


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781857883800
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1857883802
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How the Gurus of the Self-Help Movement Make Us Helpless


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