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Promise Land My Journey through America's Self-Help Culture

Jessica Lamb-Shapiro

A witty, original tour of the billion-dollar self-help industry that explores our uniquely American devotion to self-improvement—even as the author attempts some deeply personal improvements of her own.

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The author grew up around self-help due to her father being a psychologist who wrote parenting books, which led her to become skeptical of the industry.

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My dad was a child psychologist and he wrote parenting books. And I later found out that he used me as an example in his parenting books.

— Episode: A nation of jerks

Episode: A nation of jerks

The author grew up around self-help due to her father being a psychologist who wrote parenting books, which led her to become skeptical of the industry.

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My dad was a child psychologist and he wrote parenting books. And I later found out that he used me as an example in his parenting books.

So I'm not going to say I was being experimented on, but I was a little bit being experimented on because he had theories about child psychology and how to raise kids.

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