Self-help groups grew out of the civil rights movements in the 1960s and 1970s (Williams, 2004) but since that time have evolved into a very different looking phenomenon. In their current form, they tend to emerge in response to a specific health condition, or a social situation with the...
McCormick, Richard W. Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.McCormick, Richard. Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991....
Many people remember when it was once a way of life in the past.During the 1960s and 1970s,when there were not enough living things for people to live on,they had to use their own hands to do many things.If you wanted something,you had to do it your...
In the 1970s and 1980s, a new method of teaching language, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) came into vogue, which was opposing traditional approaches. According to Nunan and Lamb (1996), p.67 language was viewed as “a system of rule-governed structures hierarchically arranged” in tradi...
something of a preface from Ginette’s son Richard Kolinka, who reflects on how as a boy he thought “all mums had numbers on their arms!” Do you, as a journalist, see any similarities between that memory of Richard’s and how public recognition of the Holocaust has changed over time?
Self-help originates from industrialized countries and was initially a bottom-up approach. Since the 1980s, however, self-help has increasingly been "prescribed" by experts with the explicit aim of reducing government health care expenditure [4, 5]. We argue that such instrumentalization is ...
This thesis explores forms of Pop Art on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, seeking to identify its local variants. Yugoslavia, a\udsingle party state, built on the legacy of the anti-fascist Partisan struggle, principles of solidarity, egalitarianism, self-managemen...
Below is a sampling of some of the more popular authors of self help books you may want to consider. I (Soren, the Personal Development Guy) may not agree with every single author that I have mentioned below (I don't, actually), but unless at least one of the author's self help bo...
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First of all, unlike many self-help writers, Nathanial Branden was an actual psychologist. Not only that, he was at the forefront of the 1970s self-esteem movement and probably knew more about this subject than most of the authors on this list. ...