Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry
Daniel Nehring · 2016
70/100
👍 Worth It
This is a serious academic contribution that fills a real gap, asking hard questions about whether self-help books empower people or just flatten culture into a neoliberal mold. It's not a self-help book itself and makes no pretense of being one. If you're doing scholarly work on globalization or popular psychology, it earns its place on the shelf.
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safety95
substance80
craft65
originality78
accuracy80
hype85
age-fit70
human-eye60
Penny’s verdict70
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