self help, n.Definitions

Self-help is important — The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm.

Self-help is hardly a subject where it seems appropriate to read a book written by somebody else.

Self-help is best approached by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.

Self-help is a genre whose hawkers tell you to simplify yourself to confidence, optimism, positive feeling. Every time you hear a knock it will be you, selling yourself to yourself.

Self-help is an American industry founded on the premise that most people are miserable being themselves and would gladly pay any number of authors, psychologists and mountebanks who hold out the promise of becoming somebody else.