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I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions Hardcover – June, 1992

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 600 pages
  • Publisher: Perseus Books; First Edition edition (June 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0201570629
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201570625
  • Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.8 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,535,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Format: Hardcover
What? It's no longer in print? Get those presses rolling!

I first read this book after I'd been subjected to an "intervention," followed by "treatment" for alcohol. As nearly all of those in the "intervention" drank more than I--and still do--and the "treatment" was another temple to insurance mammon, I was a convert to a TRUE skeptic. And the experience compelled me to challenge many a pop psych concept and to read this fine volume.

While I've read much of Kaminer's work since this book, and don't ALWAYS agree with her, this book describes much of the trendy trash which is selling as if there's nothing else to read. (Heaven help us, "The Celestine Prophecy" has sequels! ) I love the vacuuous quote from Steven Covey who's coming up with even more volumes of flatulence (and the "7 habits" of whom a friend recently observed are "nothing but a rehash of the 12 step programs!") Then, as other reviewers mention, there's M. Scott Peck's drivel and that of still another renowned, best-selling psychologist whose name escapes me now. Kaminer challenges his claim that those of us who may have been spanked by mommy when we were 2 are in the same boat with those who were in Pol Pot's concentration camps. Yeah, the guy actually said that. Oh, and that same psychologist has been notorious more recently for his sexual escapades with his groupies.

The book offers a grand overview of the nonsense that pervades the affluent culture these days. For it, I thank Wendy Kaminer, and ask her publisher to print it again, and again.

When I first wrote this review, I suggested it be back in print. Now I ask Ms. Kaminer to come out with a second edition!
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Format: Hardcover
I agree with most of the author's overall perspective on the trendy 'self-help' movement. Unfortunately it did not address one of the biggest and most profitable self-help fads of all - Scientology, and her critique of religious self-help groups selected out conservative Christians only. The author brings to her analysis her feminist background, as well as her identity as a Jewish liberal. Her hostility to Christianity isn't overly blatant, but her lack of any critique of these sorts of trendy groups in Judaism, Islam, or even amongst Buddhists et al, is disappointing.

Another omission is her failure to connect some or many of the self-help groups to the New Left and those leftover leftists from it and the turbulent 1960s A book with a similar theme, 'Psychobabble', did not miss that reality and explored it a bit Anything that helps to undermine society, the family, mores, traditions, anything that can de-stabilize all of the above, is taken up enthusiastically by leftists. A nation of self-perceived 'victims' moves that process along; the goal is not really to help these 'victims' - even Kaminer sees that and points it out - but rather to make them dependent upon the new group of equally alienated individuals. Or put another way, a population of 'victims' which comes to hate or resent its political system, society, and culture, is one somewhat exploitable for revolution.

America probably has too much excess prosperity and it shouldn't surprise us that so much of it is frittered away on sillinesses llike these, human nature and the quest for quick fixes or identity explorations being what they are.

One last point.
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