Spending money can serve much the same purpose as drinking, smoking, eating, or gambling for people searching to fill an emotional void in their lives. The simple act of buying something can be a kind of tranquilizer for compulsive spenders. Like other addictions, an obsession with shopping can be conquered with hard work and a sincere and a sincere desire to change. This book explores the psychology of overspending, and then relates the real-life stories of people who have overcome a desire to overspend, by addressing the underlying anxieties that triggered the self-destructive behaviour in the first place. The book contains a self-help program.

Born to Spend: How to Overcome Compulsive Spending

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gloria Arenson

Mental Health

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Describes the normal parent-child problems that develop during adolescence, discussses chemical dependency, psychiatric problems, and codependency, and looks at recovery programs

Leave Me Alone!: Helping Your Troubled Teenager

Mooney, Belinda Terro

Medical Books

Discusses the different psychological effects that wartime service may have on veterans and provides advice for them, their families, and therapists

Scars and Stripes: Healing the Wounds of War

Olson, Gail A.

Robbins, Michael J.

Describes abusive relationships, explains why abused wives are reluctant to leave their husbands, and tells how to obtain help

Abused No More: Recovery for Women in Abusive And/or Co-Dependent Alcoholic Relationships

Self-Help

Ackerman, Robert J.

Pickering, Susan E.

Relationships

Goodbye to the White Lady: Cocaine Addiction & Recovery : A Case of Hesitation, Heartache, and Renewal

Describes the case of a successful businessman nearly ruined by cocaine addiction and traces his steps through the rehabilitation process

Nuckols, Cardwell C.

Spiritual

Examines the issue of abuse in the lives of adolescents and discusses its effects, prevention, and intervention

Too Old to Cry: Abused Teens in Today's America

Graham, Dee

Psychology & Counseling

The author describes her husband's fifteen-year struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and offers advice on dealing with an Alzhemimer's patient

The Diminished Mind: One Family's Extraordinary Battle With Alzheimer's

Politics & Social Sciences

Tyler, Jean

Anifantakis, Harry

Social Sciences

First-person accounts accompany this discussion of the sexual abuse of boys, the emotional scars that result, the barriers to recovery, and suggestions for healing

Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse

Gruban-Black, Stephen D.

Discusses the causes and treatment of teenage addiction

Helping Chronically Addicted Adolescents: Problems, Perspectives and Strategies for Recovery

Toft, Doug

Porcher, A. G.

Sociology

From a pioneer in the field of cocaine addiction and treatment comes this new guide that explores one of today's most disturbing social developments: an established underclass of young adults and teenagers who are chronically addicted to alcohol and drugs. Dr. C. C. Nuckols shows how this problem not only means disaster for addicts and their families, but for all of society. Massive addiction problems are generating a generation of high school dropouts with no vocational skills, an alarming increase in suicide and violent crime, and a growing populace of physically, emotionally, and mentally deficient citizens.

Children in Pain: Helping Chronically Addicted Adolescents

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