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Serious Shopping: Psychotherapy and Consumerism (Paperback)

by Adrienne Baker (Editor)

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Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: Free Association Books (1 Feb 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1853434833
ISBN-13: 978-1853434839
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2 cm

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The stereotype of those who "indulge" in the practice of addictive shopping is usually of women. This book presents a starker reality. The contributers convey something of the desperation of the experience while Adrienne Baker considers the concept of addiction in relation to shopping.

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Adrienne Baker is based at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's College, London, where she is Academic Coordinator and Director of the Psychodynamic Diploma. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This book, edited by Adrienne Baker who is an academic psychotherapist from London, England, is subtitled "Essays in Psychotherapy and Consumerism".

It contains papers by herself and ten other authors working in the field. It is also, in part, a follow-up from a questionnaire on personal shopping habits offered recently to the British public, where individuals were invited to describe buying behaviour which had become a problem to them.

Addictive shopping, that is the purchase of items not actually needed - or even, in some cases, not actually wanted - for psychological reasons which are not altogether voluntary or controllable, is estimated to affect up to ten per cent of the population in the U.K and the U.S.A., and to cause serious financial and relationship difficulties for individuals.

The eleven essays in the book investigate this phenomenon, describe detailed case histories with many different motivations for the problem shopping behaviour, and suggest various solutions.

Compulsive shopping we learn has many causes, some related to individual relationship difficulties and others to the personal anonymity people feel in an industrialised society. Addicted shoppers may be in search of love, self-realisation, individual identity and distinctiveness (especially with obsessionally meticulous clothes shopping, in women) and, above all, in search of power and autonomy.

A person in a shop, with money to spend, is in a position of power and authority experienced in few other situations. Saying "Yes" or "no" has an instant effect which it seldom has elsewhere, and many buyers who feel they have control of no other aspects of their lives are intoxicated by the degree of control they can exercise in this one.

Credit cards of course have complicated these possibilities and, in some ways, made things worse. Several authors hypothesise that people who thirty years ago might have found themselves shoplifting for emotional reasons are now, instead, overspending on their plastic cards.

The book is written mostly by professional psychotherapists, but the vividness and directness of the situations described make it eminently accessible to lay readers.

I, myself, found "Serious Shopping" most illuminating and, indeed, personally helpful. I would give it five stars, which I seldom do.

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