Self-help is a genre of nonfiction book written primarily to instruct readers on how to solve problems of a personal nature. The genre takes its name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-selling book by Samuel Smiles, and its works are sometimes classified instead as self-improvement books.
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The self-help genre takes its name from "Self-Help," an 1859 best-selling book by Samuel Smiles.
Self-help (Wikipedia)
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Self-help or self-improvement is "a focus on self-guided, in contrast to professionally guided, efforts to cope with life problems", economically, physically, intellectually, or emotionally-often with a substantial psychological basis.
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