EPISODE · Dec 10, 2015 · 53 MIN
Holiday Shopping or Compulsive Shopping: Dangerous Difference
from Psych Up Live · host Dr. Suzanne B. Phillips
In this show, nationally known psychologist, Dr. April Lane Benson, Ph.D., author of, I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self and To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop will clarify the addiction suffered by those who compulsively shop. She will discuss the causes, gender differences, and the difference between holiday shopping and shopping as a fix to feelings not being handled. Drawing upon her latest research and interventions, she will offer coping strategies that will help all listeners who are shopping this season. She will also discuss her new "Stopping Overshopping Text Messaging Program" and the individual and group treatments that have proven to address the compulsive need to shop. Don't miss this.
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