I shop, therefore I am: Compulsive buying and the search for self (Oniomania, ergo sum: The complete guide to compulsive buying disorders)
✍ Scribed by Morris B. Holbrook
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 97 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0742-6046
- DOI
- 10.1002/mar.1039
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✦ Synopsis
In her new book of collected essays entitled I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self (Oniomania, Ergo Sum: The Complete Guide to Compulsive Buying Disorders), April Lane Benson (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 -appropriately enough -marketing or consumer research. The latter participants -whose names will strike readers of Psychology & Marketing as quite familiar -include