I Shop Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self - Hardcover

 
9780765702425: I Shop Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0765702428 ISBN 13: 9780765702425
Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc., 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

April Benson, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia and a member of the Board of Directors, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, both in New York City. She has worked on the problem of compulsive shopping for more than a decade-doing research, treating patients, and training therapists-and has developed a comprehensive treatment program to help eliminate it. She has written about the treatment of compulsive buying and about social factors, social costs, and public policy related to compulsive buying and been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and The Los Angeles Times. Dr. Benson has discussed compulsive shopping on numerous radio and television shows, including Good Morning, America and The Today Show. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan.

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Verlag
Jason Aronson, Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0765702428
ISBN 13 
9780765702425
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
568
Herausgeber
Benson April Lane
Kontakt zum Hersteller
preigu GmbH & Co. KG
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