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  1. 1 2 3 APA Dictionary of Physicology, 1st ed., Gary R. VandenBos, ed., Washington: American Psychological Association, 2007.
  2. Steve Salerno (2005) Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, ISBN 1-4000-5409-5 pp. 24–25
  3. Micki McGee. Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life (Oxford 2005) p. 188.
  4. John Boardman et al eds., The Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford 1991), p. 94
  5. Boardman, p. 371
  6. The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition, 1989) traces legal usage back to at least 1875; whereas it detects "self-help" as a moral virtue as early as 1831 in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.
  7. John Van Wyhe, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism (2004) p. 189
  8. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation (1841) p. 22 Essays
  9. Starker, Steven (2002). Oracle at the Supermarket: The American Preoccupation With Self-Help Books. Transaction Publishers. p. 62. ISBN 0-7658-0964-8
  10. Steven Starker, Oracle at the Supermarket (2002) p. 63
  11. O'Neil, William J. (2003). Business Leaders & Success: 55 Top Business Leaders & How They Achieved Greatness. McGraw-Hill Professional. pp. 35–36. ISBN 0-07-142680-9
  12. McGee, p. 12
  13. Elizabeth Deeds Ermath, Sequel to History (Princeton 1992) p. 58
  14. McGee, p. 177
  15. Mcgee, p. 97
  16. McGee, p. 22–3