How do we live in a material world that measures success by what we own? How we deal with the pressure to compete with others in displays of our success? This is a book about the social disease of acquisitive desire for material things -corporeal and intangible. The themes covered include what acquisitive desire means in people′s lives, how therapists and therapy are treated as possessions, clinical identification and diagnosis of consumer disorders that become the primary or secondary focus of treatment, interventions and clinical issues involved in working with those who suffer the effects of an excessively materialistic lifestyle, and the way therapists, as members of a bourgeois profession, struggle with their own acquisitive desires. Jeffrey A. Kottler seeks not to encourage people to give up all attachment to things, rather to reduce the degree to which we are controlled by them. It is far better when satisfaction comes not from owning things, but using them for fun, stimulation, and learning.
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Demonstrates how what we can finally control us - the terminal stage of the social disease of acquisitive desire for material things. Jeffrey Kottler makes clear that satisfaction comes not from owning possessions, but from their legitimate use for amusement, stimulation or learning.
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PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND
Social Disease and Professional Unease
Image and Identity
The Meaning of Possessions
Consequences of Consumerism
PART TWO: DISORDERS OF EXCESS
Greed
Emptiness and Meaninglessness
Compulsive Shopping and Hoarding
The Privileged and Successful
PART THREE: TREATMENT ISSUES
Interventions - with Hal Stevens
Ritual Acquisitions
Alternative Lifestyles
Reflective Activities
Therapist Desires
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780761913610
Publisert
1999-06-22
Utgiver
SAGE Publications Inc; SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176
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