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...want a super kinky book with lots of details and graphic instructions, then “Sexploration” isn’t for you. The tone of this book is more self-help than Kama Sutra. (Though there are a few interesting exercises with rather explicit explanations...

Author: By Deborah Pan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Older Woman Introduces Us To The Joy of Sex | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...students had won some unspoken contest, coming out on top in spite of the frown-clowns who’d dismissed their course as a naïve self-help seminar. They’d called it a group therapy circle, a class better suited for a church basement than the most prestigious lecture space at Harvard. They had said, in sum, that 1504 was not a real class...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Science of Smiling | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Sure, it’s kind of like self-help, but why should that be a bad thing...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Science of Smiling | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...1950s and ’60s, pioneers like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers had decided that the positive side of human nature was under-represented in psychology, and they wanted to turn their attention instead toward things like self-actualization and happiness. They founded humanistic psychology, but according to Ben-Shahar, the discipline quickly morphed into self-help and pop psychology...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Science of Smiling | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...some 300 peer-reviewed articles and 27 books. Few psychologists are so well published. His most recent book, which he wrote with the help of author Spencer Smith, carries the grating self-help title Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life (New Harbinger Publications; 207 pages). But the book, which has helped thrust Hayes into a bitter debate in psychology, takes two highly unusual turns for a self-help manual: it says at the outset that its advice cannot cure the reader's pain (the first sentence is "People suffer"), and it advises sufferers not to fight negative feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Third Wave of Therapy | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

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