Wendy Kaminer
Autore di Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials
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Wendy Kaminer is the author of many books, including Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today; I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions; and Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety. She lives in mostra altro Boston. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Kathy Chapman, 2008
Opere di Wendy Kaminer
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Kaminer, Wendy
- Data di nascita
- 12-28-1949
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 602
- Popolarità
- #41,741
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 18
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 6
So I loved finding this book. Although written in the early 1990s it holds true today. Kaminer examines several types of "recovery" movements, then moves into other self-help movements. She examines what the authors are saying and determines that most of them contradict themselves, are not based on clear thinking, and, worst of all, encourage a status of victimhood and dependency. "You can't help it." "You need help." "You can't do it alone".
Kaminer is especially ruthless when she discusses how this movement has muddied the waters of what is really abuse. Now any kind of difficulty can be labeled as abuse, as traumatic, "as bad as being in a concentration camp". The notion is absurd but I happen to know someone who has bought exactly this argument about her own childhood, that it was worse than being in a concentration camp. Come on! It's so ridiculous. And Kaminer is not afraid to say so, often with laugh-out-loud humor.
More people need to read this book. It might shake them loose of that feeling that they need someone else to approve what they do, to tell them what to do.… (altro)