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And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries. \"Sham\" demonstrates how the self-help movement's core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of Western life - the home, the workplace, the schools and more. Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the \"empowering\" message that dominates self-help today proves just as damaging as the blame-shifting rhetoric of the \"Recovery\" movement. \"Sham\" reveals: how society is getting sick from self-help, the hyping of hope, and overdosing on Oprah; the inside story on the biggest names in the industry from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Anthony Robbins to John Gray; how the 'gurus' target the same people time and again without ever helping them; how the Recovery movement has eradicated personal responsibility by labelling just about anything - from drug abuse to \"sex addiction\" to shoplifting - a dysfunction or disease; how self-help rhetoric has pushed people away from proven medical treatments by persuading them that they can cure themselves through sheer application of will. \"Sham\" exposes how the Self-Help and Actualization industry has created its own class of perpetual victims - people dependent on self-help.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524354285841,"sku":"GOR001623455","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1857883802.jpg?v=1751186107"},{"product_id":"sham-book-steve-salerno-9781857883817","title":"Sham","description":"SHAM - Self-Help and Actualization Movement - To many it's a godsend, to others a joke. 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Going deep inside the 'Self-Help and Actualization Movement' (fittingly, the words form the acronym SHAM), Salerno offers the first serious expose of this multibillion-dollar industry and the real damage it is doing, not just to its paying customers, but to our society as a whole. \"SHAM\" reveals the serious financial and social consequences of our reliance on SHAM, the 'Self-Help and Actualization Movement' and gives the inside story on the most famous gurus - from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Anthony Robbins to John Gray and self-help queen, Oprah. \"SHAM\" shows how the self-help gurus conduct extensive market research to show them how to reach the same customers over and over - without ever helping them and explains how companies might be wasting money on motivational speakers, \"executive coaches,\" and other quick fixes that can actually hurt quality, productivity, and morale. 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