Psychobabble:Exploding the Myths of the Self-help Generation - Dr Stephen Briers

[Jane B]

Dr Stephen Briers is a British clinical psychologist who has taken a good long hard look at the self help industry and blown it apart. His argument is that the various self help philosophies are making us anxious. Anxious that how we are now is just not good enough, that we should be striving for perfection, that if we just visualise things hard enough we can all be rich and famous and that we all have needs that 'need' to be met by our partners. Not only are these myths making us anxious and disappointed, for the most part there is no scientific evidence to back up their claims.

Briers urges us, in his very readable and entertaining book, to stop and think and that maybe we aren't that bad after all.