Background: The self-help groups Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are very well established. AA and NA employ a 12-step program and are found in most large cities around the ...

I have tremendous respect for most sex therapists, but not all—and particularly not those who malign sexual self-help. Some years ago, at a meeting of the nation’s largest sexuality organization, I ...

With the brand new Vienna Self-Help Groups Directory 2026 from the Self-Help Support Center SUS Vienna, an up-to-date overview of 141 topics with more than 260 Vienna self-help groups is now available ...

Heaven helps those who help themselves.” So opens Samuel Smiles’ 1859 book Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct—an appropriately self-published work that birthed the modern genre.

According to a new study, self-guided family therapy for obesity could work just as well as traditional approaches at a fraction of the cost. Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a ...

In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.

Amber Gwynne received funding via an Australian Postgraduate Award for the duration of her PhD research (2014–2017). For millions of readers around the world, self-help books offer a discreet, ...