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Pathological Spending as a Form of Psychological Dependence
Author(s) -
GLATT MAX M.,
COOK CHRISTOPHER C. H.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1987.tb00424.x
Subject(s) - pathological , psychology , medicine , pathology
Summary A case report is presented of A. B., a 24‐year‐old woman with a 6‐year history of over‐spending, which continued despite the considerable psycho‐social damage to herself and her family. Features of this case are presented which demonstrate a type of‘psychological dependence’upon spending and which suggest that‘pathological spending’should be recognized as a previously undescribed syndrome.