Reason: Tucker-Ladd’s Psychological Self-Help is a 2,000 page behemoth of references from a passionate, life-long researcher in self-help. It was a work-in-progress for 20 years, and never mass-published. It’s an excellent research resource, though it’s now out-of-date. John Santrock’s Human Adjustment is a genuine university textbook on self-help, but it is not as mature, well-organized, or well-written as Weiten, Dunn, and Hammer’s Psychology Applied to Modern Life.
In the wake of publishing Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge, I realized there is another subject on which I have read at least three textbooks: self-help!
Subject: Self-Help
Recommendation: Psychology Applied to Modern Life by Weiten, Dunn, and Hammer
Reason: Tucker-Ladd’s Psychological Self-Help is a 2,000 page behemoth of references from a passionate, life-long researcher in self-help. It was a work-in-progress for 20 years, and never mass-published. It’s an excellent research resource, though it’s now out-of-date. John Santrock’s Human Adjustment is a genuine university textbook on self-help, but it is not as mature, well-organized, or well-written as Weiten, Dunn, and Hammer’s Psychology Applied to Modern Life.