I Shop Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765702428 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not a typical self help book This book is packed with more clinical information than any self help book. Not that it doesn't have a fair amount of personal stories to tell. The price is high but it is apparent that it is because of the research that went into the writing. If you really wish to use your brain to get a handle on shopping problems of any level read this book and think about its contents.. "a real missed opportunity" according to T. Powers. This book is, at best, mediocre and I agree with the reviewer who said it costs too much. A well-written, well-chosen, well-edited series of essays on overshopping would have been worth the price. Not this relatively simplistic analysis.For example, we hear (over and over and over) that people who shop compulsively do so to avoid emotional pain in their lives: they shop to manage feelings. I do believe I grasped that by about the 5th repetition. This obvious point is repeated again and again and again in different essays, which means that there was a mind-numbing . I Shop Therefore I Am : A Book for Today's Bankrupt World What does it say about a culture where a throng of people so hellbent on shopping for bargains they not only trample a Walmart employee to death, but then become enraged because in the wake of that the store closes, depriving them of buying oportunites. If we take the title of Dr. Benson's, I Shop Therefore I Am literally, we really must ask ourselves, Who Are We?? What does it say about the collapse of our own economy and it's world wide ripple effect because it was tied into a Ponzi scheme of credit card debt, hoping Peter would not find out about Paul? From Wal
Including material on shopping as a drug; gender and self image issues; psychiatric assessment; psychopharmacology; and psychodynamic, couples, and self-help approaches, this book is a tour de force. (Frank M. Califano, Jr.)Shopping, often ridiculed, pathologized as an obsession and a perversion, and associated with frivolous women, has now been given serious, balanced, and substantive treatment. Fortunately, it is more often the latter. In the end, this work is a significant and valuable contribution to healing in the new century. Given the remarkable explosion of e-commerce, Benson's focus on this subject seems almost prescient. Lachmann and Beatrice Beebe)April Benson's I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying & the Search for Self is
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. Benson has responded admirably to that need with a practical, comprehensive, and wonderfully readable work. Compulsive buying is a serious, often secretive affliction, with profound emotional, social, occupational, and financial consequences. While the book focuses a wide-angled lens on the many aspects of compulsive buying, it emphasizes understanding the disorder as a desperate search for self in people whose identity is not securely established. As many as a quarter of us have problems with buying, and studies sugge
Benson has discussed compulsive shopping on numerous radio and television shows, including Good Morning, America and The Today Show. 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. Please click here to visit April Benson's