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GOOD READS on MONEY PSYCHOLOGY

Olivia Mellan. Money Harmony, Resolving Money Conflicts in Your Life and Relationships. Walker Publishing Co, 1994

-Categorizes money styles non-judgmentally with lots of great ideas for exploring money and relationships. A practical,, insightful and easy work book.

Arlene Modica Matthews. Your Money, Your Self, Understanding and Improving Your Relationship to Cash and Credit. Fireside Simon and Schuster 1991 (Previously published as If I Think So Much About Money, Why Can't I Figure It Out?).

-An excellent study of how money brings out the "crazy" aspects of people who aren’t otherwise "crazy" describes a developmental theory of money psychology, from psyche to culture. Clinically sound and interestingly presentation.

Jacob Needleman. Money and the Meaning of Life. Doubleday, 1991.

-Money and spiritual values, coming to terms with the paradox, makes accessible some of the concepts put forth by German philosopher Georg Simmel.

Joe Domingues and Vicki Robin. Your Money or Your Life. Penguin Group.1992.

-From the perspective of “ time as money” challenges consumerism. Tapes are also available with a workbook.

Victoria Felton-Collins, Ph.D., CFP. Couples and Money. Published by Bantam Non-fiction.. 1990.

-Takes a look at how your "emotional portfolio" interacts with your finances. A little sexist in the beginning but gets better.

Michael Phillips, The Seven Laws of Money, Shambhala publications, Inc, 1974.

-One of the best books on the subject of money that I have read.

Barbara Ehrenreich. Fear of Falling. published by Pantheon Books, 1989.

-An important work about the American Middle Class as a culture of risk and the political consequences of the fear of loss.

Lynne Twist, The Soul of Money, Transforming Your relationship With Money and Life. W.W. Norton& Company, Inc. 3003.

-Written by a find raiser, this sometimes fluffy but often wise book is highly recommended.

Rabbi Nilton Bonder. The Kabbalah of Money, Jewish Insights on Giving, Owning, and Receiving. Shambala Publications, Inc., 2001

-This mystical book is full of spiritual and practical wisdom.

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Especially for therapists:

Kasser and Kanner, editors Psychology and Consumer culture, The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World, American Psychological Association, 2003

-I read this great article in Add Busters Magazine regarding the unconscious collusion of therapists in their client’s materialism. It was an excerpt from this anthology and I find the whole book worth reading.

William Herron and Sheila Welt, Money Matters, The Fee in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The Guilford Press 1992.

-This is a gold mine of practical insight and honest reflection regarding the significance of Money in the therapy relationship.