Session 1: Affluenza: Introduction to Compulsive Buying Disorder
In the first session, we explore what compulsive buying is, how it differs from normal buying, and how living in a culture of consumption affects it. We’ll look at its prevalence, how it’s diagnosed, and how it comes about. We’ll look at who becomes a compulsive buyer, at the question of gender, and at whether it’s best seen as a psychiatric disorder or a search for a better self. We’ll also survey the variety of functions that it serves in the life of the compulsive buyer and touch on what’s often our professional unease when working with compulsive buying clients.
Readings (click on title to access except those from the book you bought for the course, Compulsive Buying: Clinical Foundations and Treatment):
a. “Psychiatric Comorbidity and Compulsive Buying” by Martina De Zwaan in Compulsive Buying: Clinical Foundations and Treatment, edited by Astrid Mueller and James Mitchell, Routledge, 2010, p. 87-104.
b. “Understanding and Diagnosing Compulsive Buying” by Helga Dittmar in Handbook of Addictive Disorders: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Robert Coombs, Wiley, 2004, p. 411-450.
c. “Etiology of Compulsive Buying” by T. Ertfelt, J. Marino, and A. Muller in Compulsive Buying: Clinical Foundations and Treatment, edited by Astrid Mueller and James Mitchell, Routledge, 2010, 19-26.
d. “Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Compulsive Buying” by Ronald Faber in Compulsive Buying: Clinical Foundations and Treatment, edited by Astrid Mueller and James Mitchell, Routledge, 2010, p. 3-17.
e. “Social Disease and Professional Unease” in Exploring and Treating Acquisitive Desire by Jeffrey Kottler, Sage, 1999, p..3-8.
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