Comments on: Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman http://calitreview.com/205 Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Doug Robinson http://calitreview.com/205/comment-page-1#comment-801 Doug Robinson Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:09:19 +0000 http://calitreview.com//2007/06/10/fool%e2%80%99s-paradise-the-unreal-world-of-pop-psychology-by-stewart-justman/#comment-801 Kenneth Burke said it best in "Literature as Equipment for Living": what self-help literature sells is the happiness that comes from reading the book and BELIEVING that one has been (self-)helped. Kenneth Burke said it best in “Literature as Equipment for Living”: what self-help literature sells is the happiness that comes from reading the book and BELIEVING that one has been (self-)helped.

]]> By: anonymous http://calitreview.com/205/comment-page-1#comment-800 anonymous Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:08:33 +0000 http://calitreview.com//2007/06/10/fool%e2%80%99s-paradise-the-unreal-world-of-pop-psychology-by-stewart-justman/#comment-800 Great review! I picked up this book with high hopes--what a great, fertile area to explore. But then found myself flipping the pages. It didn't answer the "so what?" question very well. I wondered if my sense of the book was off, and then found this review, which really captures my feeling about it. Thanks. Great review! I picked up this book with high hopes–what a great, fertile area to explore. But then found myself flipping the pages. It didn’t answer the “so what?” question very well.

I wondered if my sense of the book was off, and then found this review, which really captures my feeling about it.

Thanks.

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