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Self-help techniques

Here are entered general works on processes or techniques designed to assist individuals in solving their own problems. Works on a specific technique, or directed toward a specific self-help goal, are entered under the technique or goal, e.g. Behavior modification; Meditation; Self-actualization (Psychology); Success; etc.

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• Life skills
• Psychology, Applied

• Self-help techniques -- Periodicals
• Self-help techniques -- Religious aspects
• Self-help techniques -- Social aspects
• Twelve-step programs

• Self-change techniques
• Self-directed change

• Be Your Own Therapist: Psychology Self Help (ca. 1995), by Thayer White (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Focusing on the Emotions of Daily Life: A Guide for Their Maintenance, by Ilan Shalif (HTML at shalif.com)
• Becoming Your Own Therapist: An Introduction to the Buddhist Way of Thought, by Thubten Yeshe, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)
• Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression, by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)

• Success, contrib. by Orison Swett Marden (partial serial archives)

• 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependency Recovery Heresies (Santa Barbara, CA: EastGate Publishers, c1991), by Martin Bobgan and Deidre Bobgan (PDF with commentary at psychoheresy.org)

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• More Revealed: A Critical Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps (online edition, 2005), by Ken Ragge (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment (Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2000), by Stanton Peele (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Recovery literature in English, by Narcotics Anonymous (PDF files at na.org)

• 12-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal, and Abuse in AA, NA, and 12-Step Treatment (2000), by Rebecca Fransway (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Alcoholics Anonymous in Iceland: From Marginality to Mainstream Culture (2000), by Hildigunnur Ólafsdóttir (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Classrooms That Work: Teaching Generic Skills in Academic and Vocational Settings, by Cathleen Stasz, K. Ramsey, R. Eden, J. DaVanzo, H. Farris, and M. W. Lewis (PDF files at rand.org)

• Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants (2015), by United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (PDF at uscis.gov)

• Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy (Philadelphia et al.:North Broad Press, c2023), by Donald Thomas Wargo (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Homeland (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1946), by Georges Surdez (page images at HathiTrust)

• Learn Anything: Shortcuts to Learning (electronic edition, 1999), by Harry Van Bommel (illustrated HTML at carelibrary.com)
• Only Connect: Discovery Pathways, Library Explorations and the Information Adventure (Lepton: Innovative Libraries, 2013), ed. by Andrew Walsh and Emma Coonan (PDF and Epub with commentary in the UK)
• College Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2010), by Bruce John Beiderwell, Linda F. Tse, Thomas A. Lochhaas, and Nicholas B. DeKanter (PDF at saylor.org)
• Universities in Transition: Foregrounding Social Contexts of Knowledge in the First Year Experience (Adelaide: Adelaide University Press, c2014), ed. by Heather Brook, Deane Fergie, Michael Maeorg, and Dee Michell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester (2007), ed. by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons (PDF at ALA)
• How to Learn Easily: Practical Hints on Economical Study (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1916), by George Van Ness Dearborn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Study and Teaching How to Study, by Frank M. McMurry (Gutenberg text)
• How to Use Your Mind: A Psychology of Study (second edition, 1921), by Harry Dexter Kitson (Gutenberg text)
• The Student's Guide (fifth impression; London: University of London Press, 1920), by John Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• How to Succeed as a Student (1994 Griffith edition), by Kevin B. Bucknall (zipped RTF at homestead.com)

• A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), ed. by Peggy O'Neill, Angela Crow, and Larry W. Burton (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Power of Positive Living: Everyday Psychology for Getting What You Want Out of Life (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, c1950), by Douglas Ellsworth Lurton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Let Me Think (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by H. A. Overstreet (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Develop Personal Power (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1937), by Dick Carlson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental Magnetism: A Study of the Seven Realms of Mind and Mastery in the Conflicts of Life (Meriden, CT: Ralston University Press, 1929), by Edmund Shaftesbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influencing Men in Business: The Psychology of Argument and Suggestion (New York: Ronald Press Co., 1911), by Walter Dill Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Practical Business Psychology (first edition; New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1951), by Donald Anderson Laird and Eleanor C. Laird (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Process of Persuasion (New York: Crown Publishers, c1946), by Clyde R. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rosicrucian Principles for the Home and Business (second edition; San Jose, CA: Rosicrucian Press, 1929), by H. Spencer Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On Vital Reserves: The Energies of Men; The Gospel of Relaxation (New York: Henry Holt and Co., c1911), by William James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reactionism: The Science of You (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923), by John D. Boyle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It, by David V. Bush (Gutenberg text)

• Journal of Applied Psychology (partial serial archives)

• Counseling With Returned Servicemen (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1946), by Carl R. Rogers and John L. Wallen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dying to Live, by Bob Smith
  • HTML and PDF at raystedman.org
  • HTML and PDF files at pbc.org (select right-side icons to read chapters)

• On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime, by Hugo Münsterberg (HTML at York)

• Bargaining and Markets (electronic edition; with corrections from 1990 edition), by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein (PDF files with commentary at Toronto)

• You Can Relax (New York: Sermon Publications, c1953), by Norman Vincent Peale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Steps Toward Inner Peace, by Peace Pilgrim (PDF files at audio reading with commentary at peacepilgrim.org and other sites)

• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• On the Front Lines: Police Stress and Family Well-Being: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.