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I Shop Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying & the Search for Self By April Lane Benson ( Jason Aronson )
Release Date: 2000-07-28
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Compulsive buying is a serious, often secretive affliction, with profound emotional, social, occupational, and financial consequences. As many as a quarter of us have problems with buying, and studies suggest that between one and six percent of the population are full-fledged compulsive buyers. I Shop,Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self brings together, for the first time, the most important thinking about this disorder. As more and more therapists encounter compulsive buying (whether as a presenting problem or revealed in the course of ongoing therapy), the need for an in-depth clinical understanding of the disorder has grown. Dr. Benson has responded admirably to that need with a practical, comprehensive, and wonderfully readable work. A Jason Aronson Book
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 Very hard to understand
This book is very hard to read. I felt like I needed to be a doctor to understand it. I also don't understand why it is so expensive. I emailed the author to see if I could purchase it somewhere cheaper. I got a response back from her assistant that I would not be able to buy it anywhere cheaper. I checked with my libabry and they did not have it ( or did any in a 100 mile radius. I even asked them if they could get it for me. They even told me it was too expensive for them to purchase. Great Huh!! So I eventually went to my local borders and went to purchase the book. Of course the book was not there, so I had eo special order it. The book's final price came to over $70. After reading it, I was very disappointed about the price. I do not feel the this book is worth that kind of cost. I would feel very terrible if I was the author charging people who are having problems with shopping and money. How dare she tell us how to over come our problems but then not give us any other way to buy her book. I eventually got cheaper books that were much much better, then this overpriced dust collector!!!!
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OVER RATED!!!!
this book is really long, and it is overpriced. I think you need to be a psycologist to understand a lot of the verbage used. Very boring. I am disappointed that I purchased it, that alone made me realize that I am a shopaholic.
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Ridiculous price ( annant )
And there is web site that sells "stopping overshopping program" by the same author. It costs 350 dollars. Ripoff.
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 Book Review by Dr. Bonnie Kellen ( bonniek55 )
I Shop Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search For Self
By Dr. April Lane Benson, editor
Jason Aronson Inc. 2000
Book Review by Dr. Bonnie Kellen
Dr. Benson was a pioneer in the field of eating disorders, cofounding one of the first clinics and training centers. In this must read collection she again leads the way in tackling the burgeoning epidemic of compulsive shopping and money disorders in general. In fact anyone interested in the psychological issues of money will find this book fascinating.
We all have clients and acquaintances who have problems with shopping, buying and debting but many of us are ill equipped to address these problems because we are not educated in this area. Dr. Benson has gathered the leaders in the field and in her fastidious quest for quality has created an excellent and most readable reference book for all.
The first section gives an overview of the field with such topics as When money is the drug ( Bounty). She then focuses on shopping,buying and selfhood with such interesting topics as Are we what we own? (Belk), Collecting as reparation (Muensterberger) and Giving until it hurts (McGrath). Included is the diagnostic assessment of compulsive shopping with questionnaires and clinical interview techniques. Another section covers psychodynamic theory and technique and includes Compulsive shopping as an addiction (Goldman) and The use of money as an action symptom ( Krueger).
Detailed and instructive coverage of treatment plans and techniques include a detailed curricular for an 8 week Group cognitive behavioral therapy for buying disorders (Burgard and Mitchell) and a Psychoeducational group therapy for money disorders (Brazer). The scope of the collection is apparent from the inclusion of treatment adjuncts such as Debtors Anonymous and Psychotherapy (Levine & Kellen) and Financial Recovery Counseling (McCall.).
This is a truly multidisciplinary book which will illuminate and deepen therapeutic understanding of a growing problem area. Anyone who has struggled with one of the issues discussed in this book will find it helpful in their own personal lives. The book is a fascinating and enjoyable read for all.
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An Excellent Collection ( mbh3@columbia.edu )
In her book of collected essays entitled I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self, April Lane Benson (ed. 2000) has compiled what must surely rank as the definitive volume of work on various aspects of impulse-control disorders in the realm of consumer behavior. Herself a psychoanalyst in the private practice of psychotherapy and a co-founder/director of the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia in New York City, Benson has assembled contributions by a number of distinguished authorities from such diverse specialties as community social work, sociology, psychiatry-psychoanalysis-psychotherapy-psychology, education, career counseling, self-help group facilitation, and - quite appropriately - marketing or consumer research.
I Shop benefits enormously from the exceedingly ambitious yet painstaking way in which Benson has organized a compendious and representative body of material dealing with various compulsive buying disorders. In this connection, the editor has successfully elicited contributions from a truly impressive group of major thinkers in this specialized area. She has structured the resulting essays into a tightly knit set of sections and chapters. And she has minimized repetition or duplication while carefully cross-referencing other chapters that cover issues relevant to various discussions along the way. All this makes for a highly useful, well-synthesized, thoroughly indexed reference work on the state-of-the-art in the study and treatment of shopping and spending pathologies.
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