The presence of self-help is a phenomenon that is peculiar to our time and that as an extensive genealogy. Its current configuration gathers the modulations of its history and articulates with social and political conditions, which put an accent on the capacities of the subject. This, which must be sustained with its own resources, dips into a therapeutic culture that is invited to auto-understand, auto-diagnose and overcome by oneself any malaises. Intellectuals are not outside of self-help; if many appeal to it as consumers, others lend services as authors: well-known journalists, essayists, psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers find thus a successful and profitable path.