Self-Help in Mental Health: A Critical Review

by T. Mark Harwood and Luciano L'Abate

Book Overview

Self-help is big business, but alas not a scienti c business. The estimated 10 billion-that's with a "b"-spent each year on self-help in the United States is rarely guided by research or monitored by mental health professionals. Instead, marketing and metaphysics triumph. The more outrageous the "miraculous cure" and the "r- olutionary secret," the better the sales. Of the 3,000 plus self-help books published each year, only a dozen contain controlled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441910980
• ISBN13: 9781441910981
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"