Selfishness Matters

by Theo Selles, M.Sc.

Overview

Selfishness Matters is a caustic tongue-in-cheek, no-holds barred attack on the culture of Self. Family Therapist Theo Selles questions the value of therapy and makes the case that the self-help industry does more harm than good. Capitalizing on people's self-centered natures, self-help gurus get rich encouraging emphasis on self (actualization, improvement, growth, analysis, esteem etc.) which only makes relationships worse.

Theo channels a mysterious pompous entity known as "The Big Fill," a tortured character all too willing to take on a Messiah-like role in directing people's lives. The Big Fill proceeds to give increasingly insane instructions about how to put one's self first. In doing so he raises important questions about who we trust to guide us and confronts us with the selfish aspects of our lives.

The author based all of The Big Fill's advice on real-life examples from his clinical practice, and in the end, calls for a focus on "other-help" instead.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011088629
Publisher:	Theo Selles, M.Sc.
Publication date:	07/10/2010
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	284 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Theo Selles has been a Registered Family Therapist for over 25 years. He has advanced training in areas such as Sex Therapy and Trauma/Crisis Debriefing. He teaches at the post-secondary level.

Theo's business, Integrity Works, specializes in increasing organizational productivity through fun, interactive, values based teambuilding and resiliency training. He is an accomplished public speaker and served as the Master of Ceremonies for Toronto's International Day for People with Disabilities. Visit www.integrityworks.ca for more information.

Theo's latest book, Mr. Prissy Boots, is a romantic comedy in the same vein as P.G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle series. It has a castle, chickens, and a vindictive aunt. Gwendolyn Cuthbert is a middle-aged psychotherapist with bad hips and a history of failed marriages. She’s received a dubiously generous bequest on the condition that she takes unusual and unreasonable care of an obese cat who hoots. Thankfully, she’s not alone. She has beavers on her side, and a reluctant knight.

Theo's previous book, The Heart of the Pearl-How to Completely Heal from "Sexual" Abuse, offers a new way to understand abuse, and a clear step by step program for how to fully reclaim one's life from its impact.

His first book "Selfishness Matters - a self-help parody book even a man would read" is a scathingly funny attack on the culture of Self and pokes fun at relationship "experts" who take themselves far too seriously.