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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Self-help literature"”.
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Tragedies, transgressions, and transformations : memory, suffering, pain, and recovery culture
… culture is informed by historical and current self-help literature. This enabled me to understand ways pain has been constructed in public discourse. One site of this analysis is the recent debates of child sexual abuse. Another is the development of the autopathography investigated here as a …
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The Lived Experiences of Evangelical Christian Men Who Self-Identify as Sexual Addicts
… the evangelical community are evidenced by its self-help literature, men's movements, and sex manuals. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the lived experiences of evangelical Christian men who self-identify as sexual addicts. This qualitative method was existential-phenomenological …
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The self-help of composition: Peter Elbow's "Writing without Teachers", composition studies, and the extracurriculum
… the original impetus for the book was based on self-instruction, or learning about writing outside of any course. For Composition Studies, Writing without Teachers, starting with its title, is a riddle or a Zen koan the discipline has delayed answering for over thirty-five years. This project …
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An investigation of experiences of reading for mental health and well-being and their relation to models of bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy is the use of imaginative or self-help literature as an intervention for mental health problems. It aims to provide psycho-social support and treatment and is used with individuals or in a group. Bibliotherapy has come to prominence in the UK over the past decade. Bibliotherapy …
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The Japanese Art of Listening An ethnographic investigation into the role of the listener
… and listening volunteers, and an analysis of self-help literature on listening. At night clubs in Tokyo, hostesses, who are famous for being good listeners, use listening as a streetwise skill. This enables them to stay in subordinate and supportive positions, and to help customers dominate a …
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Toward a Protestant theology of celibacy : Protestant thought in dialogue with John Paul II's Theology of the Body.
… the thesis. Chapter 2 reviews the Protestant literature on celibacy under two headings: first, major treatments from the Protestant era, including those by Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, various Shakers, and authors from the English Reformation; second, treatments from 1950 to the …