If I Think About Money so Much, Why Can't I Figure It Out : Understanding and Overcoming Your Money Complex

Matthews, Arlene Modica

ISBN 10: 0671682784 / ISBN 13: 9780671682781

Published by Summit Books, 1991

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If I Think About Money so Much, Why Can't I Figure It Out : Understanding and Overcoming Your Money Complex.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: If I Think About Money so Much, Why Can't I Figure It Out : Understanding and Overcoming Your Money Complex
• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671682784
• ISBN 13: 9780671682781
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business & Economics
  • Personal Finance

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Synopsis

Reveals how attitudes about money are formed and offers constructive strategies for overcoming money neuroses

Reviews

In this probing and excellent study, psychoanalyst Matthews ( Why Did I Marry You, Anyway? ) examines the inept or aberrant money-related behaviors of sensible, even brilliant, people. She claims that most of us suffer to some extent from money-connected strains on self-esteem or relationships and cites numerous examples of profligacy and unnecessary penny-pinching. Tracing roots of a "money complex" to infancy, she claims that conflicting influences from our families, education, careers and culture shape our subjective valueing of money. With insighful commentary on, for instance, the psychic link between time and money and the lemming-like psychology of investors, Matthews offers advice and "laws" designed to help readers identify and cope with various money complexes. Author tour.
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