What's the Catch?: How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated (All About Me Book 3)

What's the Catch, the third book in the ALL ABOUT ME series, explores how the people around us, from parents to peers, and media from advertising to the internet try to influence us. This book will help you understand all the ways we are influenced to think, feel or behave in ways we might not usually do, or want to. Sometimes influence is helpful, but at other times we end up shortchanged. This book explores a range of situations and gives examples that will help you become more aware of the forces nudging and pushing us. The book is full of graphic illustrations that help explain the ideas, and also includes many fun and entertaining activities to help you see more clearly when you are being helped, or when you are being manipulated, brainwashed and tricked. With this information and practice you will learn when influence is operating, and how to protect yourself. The author, David Sobel, M.D. is a practicing physician, and the author of many previous books. He presents these ideas so that they are easy to read and absorb. Artist Jeff Jackson illustrates the book with an entertaining cast of teen characters and images which describe and highlight these ideas. The All About Me Series from Hoopoe Books presents these books, designed to help you understand yourself and how you, as a human being, work: what psychologists know about how we see, think, and feel. Read more