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Many of these marriage books, like other staples of the self-help genre, codify their wisdom into a simple program comprising seven (or nine, or 100) easily digestible (and often alliterative) rules.

Finally—I thought—a lead. If I were the problem, I reasoned, I could also be the solution. Self-help had never appealed to me; my preferred nonfiction genre was literary memoir.

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She helps people believe in their capacity to heal, Dr. Abrams explained. Dr. Bryant also avoids the “gimmicky, bypassing or vague” language that so many self-help books lean on, she added. 6.