The Money Trap: A Practical Program to Stop Self-Defeating Financial Habits So You Can Reclaim Your Grip on Life

<h4><center>Take <i>The Money Trap</i> Quiz</center></h4><blockquote><ol type="1" start="1"><p> <li>Do you have a "magic number" -- a certain am out of money-you know will leave you set for life?</li></p><p> <li>Does your job require you to work long hours in order to get ahead and stay ahead?</li></p><p> <li> Does your definition of what it means to be rich keep changing?</li></p><p> <li>Do you take pride in your ability to manage your life on limited funds?</li></p><p> <li>Have all your attempts at creating a budget ended in failure?</li></p><p> <li>Do you swing between binge spending and the careful conservation of your resources?</li></p><p> <li>Do your money problems stem not from irresponsibility or lack of control, but from depression or another psychological problem?</li></ol></p><p>If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you may have a money disorder.</p></blockquote><p>In <i>The Money Trap,</i> Ron Gallen identifies the most common causes of money disorders and provides a program to heal everything from out-of-control spending to workaholism to money obsession to underearning.</p>

Ron Gallen is a financial counselor who specializes in helping people with recurrent and addictive money problems. He has been a pioneer in the understanding and treatment of self-defeating relationships with money and work.

Ron was trained in addiction counseling and intervention at Rutgers Center for Alcoholism Studies. Working as a crisis intervention professional, he developed a groundbreaking approach to treating chronic money problems and helping those in recovery from other addictions to avoid relapse due to money issues. Ron was the first to identify the four main types of money disorders, their differential diagnosis, and to present a unified theory combined with a comprehensive treatment plan.

He is in private practice and has been a consultant to corporations, treatment centers, universities, and government agencies. These include Columbia University, The New York Times, The United Way, New York State Division of Substance Abuse, Cornell University Medical College, The Meadows Rehabilitation Center and the Employee Assistance Professionals Association National Conference.Ron has established The Institute for Financial Health, devoted to training clinicians toward understanding and treating those with money disorders and developing a Certified Money Counselor credential program.

A sought after speaker and teacher on money and debt, profiles of Ron and his work have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world including an in-depth profile in The London Times.