Mind over Money : Overcoming the Money Disorders That Threaten Our Financial Health

by KLONTZ, BRADKLONTZ, TED

• ISBN13: 9780385531016
• ISBN10: 038553101X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-29
• Publisher: Crown Business

Summary

Drs. Brad and Ted Klontz, a father and son team of pioneers in the emerging field of financial psychology, guide readers to better relationships with money--a crucial change in these tough economic times.

Author Biography

DRS. BRAD AND TED KLONTZ, father and son pioneers in the emerging field of financial psychology, are president and CEO of Klontz Coaching and Consulting and co-founders of Your Mental Wealth ™ . In addition to their clinical work, they speak to audiences over 70 times a year about issues relating to behavioral finance, money disorders, and financial health. The author of several books and countless articles, they are frequently quoted in the media about issues relating to behavioral finance, money disorders, and financial health, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The New York Times, and Money Magazine.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Big Lie
Information Is Not Enough	p. 19
The Zoo in You	p. 33
Belonging at All Costs: Running with the Herd	p. 63
The Ghosts of Financial Trauma	p. 90
Money Disorders
What Exactly Is a Money Disorder, Anyway?	p. 129
Money-Avoidance Disorders	p. 134
Financial Denial	p. 136
Financial Rejection	p. 140
Underspending	p. 149
Excessive Risk Aversion	p. 151
Money-Worshiping Disorders	p. 154
Hoarding	p. 158
Unreasonable Risk Taking/Pathological Gambling	p. 161
Workaholism	p. 166
Overspending/Compulsive Buying Disorder	p. 169
Relational Money Disorders	p. 175
Financial Infidelity	p. 180
Financial Incest	p. 185
Financial Enabling	p. 187
Financial Dependency	p. 193
Beating Your Money Disorders
Resolving That Unfinished Business	p. 205
Financial Therapy	p. 228
Transforming Your Financial Life	p. 262
Afterword	p. 279
Do You Have a Money Disorder?	p. 285
Bibliography	p. 287
Acknowledgments	p. 297
Index	p. 301
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