Credit: Various publishers Gone are the days when self-help books were practically required to be cheesy, impersonal, and boring. Now, if you know where to look, you'll find empowering ...

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When I was 13, my desire to read self-help and psychology books formed. At the time, I became really curious about personality tests and learning more about myself, discovering who I was and why I ...

Over the years, there have been plenty of opinions and writings on the purpose of self-help books. While some believe it's highly useful, others dismiss the idea of reading them. However ...

Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score has spent more than 245 weeks on The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list and is one of the most commercially successful trauma recovery ...

As both an avid consumer and eager critic of this corner of the library, I take the task of selecting self-help books seriously—especially during a season whose unofficial slogan is “New year ...

There is, however, one genre of books that I’ve never really bothered to explore, one that promises to make a practical difference: self-help. As Jessica Lamb-Shapiro writes in “Promise Land ...

Some people can’t get enough of it; some people can’t stand it. But the best self-help books cover a lot more ground than you might think. After all, the core definition of self-help – books ...