I - Money in Life.- 1. How Much is Enough?.- 2. Money Styles.- 3. Material Incentives in Childhood and Adolescence.- 4. Poverty and Psychopathology.- 5. Power, Gender and Money.- 6. Men, Money and Masculinity.- 7. Money as a Mirror of Marriage.- 8. Money and Divorce.- 9. Gambling.- 10. In the Matter of Setting the Value of Psychological Damages.- 11. Money in the Older Years.- II - Money in the Psychotherapeutic Setting.- 12. Sigmund Freud and Money.- 13. Money and the Left in Psychoanalysis.- 14. The Seduction of Money.- 15. Money and Countertransference.- 16. Countertransference Problems with Money.- 17. Money Issues and Analytic Neutrality.- 18. Psychoanalytic Understanding and Treatment of the Very Rich.- 19. Money Management in the Borderline Patient.- 20. Psychotherapy Without Fee.- 21. Money, Ethics and the Psychoanalyst.- 22. Fee and Empathy: Logic and Logistics in Psychoanalysis.- 23. The Fiscal Blindspot in Therapy.- 24. Effects of the New Economic Climate on Psychotherapeutic Practice.- Appendix Correspondence.

Money was invented about 5000 years ago and has proved essential to civilization. It has also become so charged with emotions that it dominates events througout life and looms large in all intepersonal transactions. This book looks at all aspects of the money mind relationship from the viewpoint of a psychiatrist who has dealt with the problems that money produces and the problems that it supposedly resolves. There are chapters dealing with important stages in the life cycle such as childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, retirement, old age and death as well as chapters concerned with special topics such as divorce, poverty, wealth, gambling, stealing, philanthropy and hoarding. The author illustrates these issues with cases drawn from his professional work and from history, literature, current events, and popular culture and personalities. He concludes by telling the reader how to correct emotional distortions of money in order to become happier and more effective.

Money was invented about 5000 years ago and has proved essential to civilization. It has also become so charged with emotions that it dominates events througout life and looms large in all intepersonal transactions. This book looks at all aspects of the money mind relationship from the viewpoint of a psychiatrist who has dealt with the problems that money produces and the problems that it supposedly resolves. There are chapters dealing with important stages in the life cycle such as childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, retirement, old age and death as well as chapters concerned with special topics such as divorce, poverty, wealth, gambling, stealing, philanthropy and hoarding. The author illustrates these issues with cases drawn from his professional work and from history, literature, current events, and popular culture and personalities. He concludes by telling the reader how to correct emotional distortions of money in order to become happier and more effective.