Serious shopping : psychotherapy and consumerism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Baker, Adrienne, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : b Free Association Books, [publisher not identified], [2000]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1 'Even As I Bought It I Knew It Couldn't Work' / Adrienne Baker 8
  • 2 Consuming 'Goods' / Rosalind Minsky 35
  • 3 From Harrods to Holloway: When Compulsive Shopping Is Not An Option / Marsha Taylor 52
  • 4 Gifts of Life: An Existential Approach to Shopping Addiction / Simon du Plock 73
  • 5 The Incandescent Shopper: An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective / David Horne 95
  • 6 Women, Body Image and Shopping for Clothes / Gemma Corbett 114
  • 7 The Ecology of Shopping--A Transformational Experience / Rosalind Pearmain 133
  • 8 Addictive Shopping as a Form of Family Communication / Paula Riddy 154
  • 9 Social Power, Self-Identity and Addictive Consumption / Richard Elliott 183
  • 10 Shopping for an Addiction / Mary Harris 199
  • 11 Shame on Credit / Fiona Murray 221