Women Who Love Too Much
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Women Who Love Too Much is a self-help book
by Robin Norwood published in 1985.
The book, was a number one seller on the New York Times Best Seller list
's "advice and miscellaneous" category in 1987, is credited with "spawn[ing] a cottage industry in the therapy community." Its premise, that women who get "mired in obsessive relationships" are to help themselves, was criticized by some feminist scholars.
Self-help book
Self-help books are books written with the stated intention to instruct any readers on a number of personal problems. They take their name from Self-Help, the Victorian best-seller, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help...
by Robin Norwood published in 1985.
The book, was a number one seller on the New York Times Best Seller list
New York Times Best Seller list
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is published weekly in The New York Times Book Review magazine, which is published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times and as a stand-alone publication...
's "advice and miscellaneous" category in 1987, is credited with "spawn[ing] a cottage industry in the therapy community." Its premise, that women who get "mired in obsessive relationships" are to help themselves, was criticized by some feminist scholars.