Word: self-help
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JOSEPH WOLPE, author of Our Useless Fears, sets himself a lofty goal. You would never know it from the cover: the inch-high purple letters hailing "the world's foremost authority on anxiety" immediately remind one of the rash of self-help books so abundant during the last few years. But in opening paragraph of his preface, Wolpe assures us that his book is not of that genre, revealing his true motive in a voice filled with profound eloquence: "These offshoots of behavior therapy are like the uppermost branches of a tree, visible above a mist." He expounds further...
Masquerading as a self-help book, and claiming to be a scientific treatise, Our Useless Fears is more like a guided tour of the San Diego zoo. The human menagerie paraded across its pages might benefit from Dr. Wolpe's theories; but for the average reader--neither traumatized by sunrise nor terrified by frogs--the book is as useless as the fears it describes...
...also said that it was important to establish a dialogue between nations from the North and South, and that self-help community projects are often productive. "We want to work not only for, but with the people." Camara said...
...Camara founded Operation Hope, an organization which promotes self-help projects and provides community services, including health, educational and recreational programs for Brazil's poor...
...increase in the self-help requirements financial aid students must meet...