You have to learn these lessons sometime: persuasion and therapeutic power relations in bestselling relationship manuals

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Hazleden, Rebecca. 2010. "You have to learn these lessons sometime: persuasion and therapeutic power relations in bestselling relationship manuals." Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 24 (2), pp. 291-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310903576341

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Article Title	You have to learn these lessons sometime: persuasion and therapeutic power relations in bestselling relationship manuals
ERA Journal ID	34681
Article Category	Article
Author	Hazleden, Rebecca
Journal Title	Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
Journal Citation	24 (2), pp. 291-305
Number of Pages	15
Year	2010
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Place of Publication	Australia
ISSN	1030-4312
	1469-3666
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310903576341
Web Address (URL)	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10304310903576341
Abstract	Whilst self-help books have recently come under increased academic scrutiny, the power relations in the techniques they use in order to persuade, convince and convert their readers remain largely unexamined. This paper seeks to redress this omission, and examines a selection of bestselling relationship manuals published between 1973 and 2005 for claims to authority and techniques of persuasion. Further, it examines and critiques Rose's dimensions of therapeutic power relations, through the claims authors make to the right to speak as experts in human relationships and the techniques they use to persuade, co-opt and interpolate the reader into the therapeutic process.
Keywords	codependency; power; relationships; self-esteem
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	529999. Other psychology not elsewhere classified
	360203. Professional writing and journalism practice
	500107. Professional ethics
	500311. Philosophical psychology (incl. moral psychology and philosophy of action)
Public Notes	Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.
Byline Affiliations	Public Memory Research Centre
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland

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