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The Evolution of Self-Help

The Evolution of Self-Help

Paperback

General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1349369888
ISBN13: 9781349369881
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 9 2008
Pages: 187
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking at a fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution of over 500 medical, academic, and popular organizations. He explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems.

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