Self-care can range from physical activities like taking a warm bath, to social activities like catching up with friends, to mental activities like taking a break. Self-care involves conscious ...

In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is when a person’s expectations about a situation come true due to changes in their own behavior. It is a psychological phenomenon that can play a role in mental health.

Self-help is a helpful resource for students who are motivated to do their own work, often focusing on small changes students can make to improve their lives. Self-help strategies can help students ...

Nearly half (47%) of Americans think they could write a self-help book based on their life experiences, new research suggests. A recent survey of 2,000 US adults discovered that youth and wisdom are ...

Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really make us better people? New year, new you. As we wrap ...

From the 1940s to the ’60s, the Onitsha Market in southeastern Nigeria was the center of a burgeoning movement in self-help literature. Known as Onitsha Market literature, these cheap, locally ...