Word: self-help
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When Davis completes her talk, admirers approach. "I can't tell you how much you've helped me," says a bespectacled college-age girl. A woman asks her to look over a self-help book she is writing, but Davis declines. "My name is Gunter," announces a stout man with a German accent. "I owe my own recovery to John Bradshaw." He asks Davis to sign a copy of The Way I See It. During her lecture Davis found time to mention a book of hers that will soon be published. "I have a novel coming out," she told...
...Irish had a gift for mutual self-help and taking care of their own. Out of this instinct, manifest in America's dozens of "little Dublins," emerged institutions, like New York City's notorious Tammany Hall, that would transform the quality and character of urban politics in America. As early as 1852, the immigrant vote (principally Irish) was so important that Winfield Scott, the staunchly Protestant Whig candidate for President, ecumenically attended Sunday Mass on campaign visits to New York. Some 210,000 Irish fought during the Civil War, 170,000 of them on the Union side...
...bookstores, pop-psychology sections are filled with dozens of self-help survivor titles. By far the most controversial and best selling (more than 700,000 copies) of these books is The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis. In their 1988 publication, considered the bible of the recovered-memory movement, they include such dogma as "If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were," and "If you don't remember your abuse, you are not alone. Many women don't have memories . . . this doesn't mean they weren't abused." Like many...
Secretary of the Faculty Council John B. Fox Jr. '59 attributed the reduction to a 70-person cut in FAS administration since 1990, constrained operating budgets for departments, a refinancing of Harvard debt at lower interest rates and maintaining a constant proportion of self-help in student financial aid packages...
...forthcoming book No Place for Truth (Eerdmans) by theologian David F. Wells of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. Even among conservatives, warns Wells, biblical truth "is being edged out by the small and tawdry interest of the self in itself." The Christian Gospel, he says, is becoming "indistinguishable from any of a host of alternative self-help doctrines...