Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless [Audiobook] download free by Steve Salerno
- Listen audiobook: Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
- Author: Steve Salerno
- Release date: 2006/12/1
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9781400054107
- Rating: 8.9 of 10
- Votes: 128
- Review by: Zachery Peace
- Review rating: 7.67 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/14
- Duration: 3H19M3S in 256 kbps (54.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, AC3, AIFF, MPEG4, MOD, WMA, FLAC (compression ALZ, TAR.XZ, RAR, TZ, LZMA, ZIP, XZ)
- Total pages original book: 273
- Includes a PDF summary of 32 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M26S (6.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it's neither-in fact it's much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (fittingly, the words form the acronym SHAM), Salerno offers the first serious exposé of this multibillion-dollar industry and the real damage it is doing-not just to its paying customers, but to all of American society. Based on the author's extensive reporting-and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading 'lifestyle' publisher-SHAM shows how thinly credentialed 'experts' now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries. SHAM demonstrates how the self-help movement's core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of American life-the home, the workplace, the schools, and more. And Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the 'empowering' message that dominates self-help today proves just as damaging as the blame-shifting rhetoric of self-help's 'Recovery' movement. SHAM also reveals: - How self-help gurus conduct extensive market research to reach the same customers over and over-without ever helping them - The inside story on the most notorious gurus-from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Tony Robbins to John Gray - How your company might be wasting money on motivational speakers, 'executive coaches,' and other quick fixes that often hurt quality, productivity, and morale - How the Recovery movement has eradicated notions of personal responsibility by labeling just about anything-from drug abuse to 'sex addiction' to shoplifting-a dysfunction or disease - How Americans blindly accept that twelve-step programs offer the only hope of treating addiction, when in fact these programs can do more harm than good - How the self-help movement inspired the disastrous emphasis on self-esteem in our schools - How self-help rhetoric has pushed people away from proven medical treatments by persuading them that they can cure themselves through sheer application of will As Salerno shows, to describe self-help as a waste of time and money vastly understates its collateral damage. And with SHAM, the self-help industry has finally been called to account for the damage it has done. Also available as an eBook From the Hardcover edition.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Mind, Body, Spirit: Thought & Practice, Information Technology Industries, Psychology, Social, Group Or Collective Psychology, Media, Information & Communication Industries
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.75 USD
- Dimensions: 135x204x16mm
- Weight: 209g
- Printed by: Random House Inc
- Published in: New York, United States
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