DevInContext The Case For Personal Growth

Reading List

Books by Personal Growth Critics

The links are to the Amazon pages for each book.  Feel free to let me know if I've missed any important books in this genre.  One thing you may notice is that I haven't listed many books that are specifically critical of psychotherapy -- that would be quite a long list indeed.  If you know of any books of that kind that particularly stand out, I'd love to hear your views.

• Jeremy Carrette & Richard King, Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion
• Ronald W. Dworkin, Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class
• Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
• Stewart Justman, Fool's Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology
• Wendy Kaminer, I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
• Micki McGee, Self-Help Inc.: Makeover Culture in America
• Paul Pearsall, The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
• Steve Salerno, SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
• Christina Hoff Sommers & Sally Satel, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
• Tom Tiede, Self-Help Nation

Blogs Critical of Personal Growth

Again, feel free to make any recommendations here.

• Beyond Growth
• Cosmic Connie
• Guruphiliac
• Self-Help, Inc. (Micki McGee)
• SHAMBlog (Steve Salerno)