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Featuring Dr. April Benson

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	How to Guard Yourself From Flash Sales April 24, 2012
	Buying happiness: Shoppers find comfort from retail therapy February 23, 2012
	Retail Therapy February 2012
	Compulsive shopping: When spending is like substance abuse January 3, 2012
	Why We Collect Stuff: Collecting as Pleasure and Pain December 30, 2011
	The rise of the drunken shopper December 28th, 2011
	Gilt Addicts Anonymous: The Daily Online Flash Sale Fixation December 22, 2011
	Online retailing: The mobile allure December 20, 2011
	How to Discuss a Relative’s Debt Crisis December 8, 2011
	Shop ‘Til You Stop: How to Treat Compulsive Spending December 6, 2011
	Black Friday Shopping: 8 Tips To Curb Overspending November 25, 2011
	Indulging in Guilty Pleasures Is Actually Good for You (in Small Doses) October 2011
	Desperate US consumers turn to ‘extreme couponing’ September 17, 2011
	Are You A Shopaholic? September 2011
	Drunk Shopping: Have You Done It? September 2011
	Chic Discount Sites Allow Users to Find Designer Goods for Less April 22, 2011
	How to Determine if You Have a Shopping Addiction April 2011
	Three Shopaholic Words: Card, Credit, and Shop April 2011
	Daily Deals Try to Entice Customers into Buying Blitz March 31, 2011
	Woman’s World March 14, 2011
	The Rise and Rise of the Need to Buy March 11, 2011
	Self Magazine January, 2011
	Buyer beware: One luxury item can spark shopping spree January 5, 2011
	Reining In Retail Addiction December 25, 2010
	Ask Questions About Store Return Policy December 24, 2010
	Is there such a thing as compulsive shopping? December 16, 2010
	Spending Gone Wild December 14, 2010
	The True Meaning of Shopping December 14, 2010
	Careless-spending celebrities lose sympathy with American public December 9, 2010
NaplesNews.com	Choices: When shopping becomes a problem December 8, 2010
OpenForum.com	Being Rich and Thin Go Hand in Hand December 7, 2010
	Don’t be a shopaholic this season December 4, 2010
	Have Yourself A Mindful Merry Christmas December 1, 2010
Whole Living	Conscious Spending: What Am I Shopping For? December, 2010, p. 126
The Daily Beast	Who Spends the Most? November 25, 2010
	Addicts who face $$ death by plastic November 25, 2010
	Have a Good – Not a Goods – Holiday November 1, 2010
	Get your holiday shopping act together now November 1, 2010
	The Diva October 25, 2010
	How to Recognize if You Have a Shopping Problem October 13, 2010
	5 steps to stop compulsive spending October 1, 2010
	Shop-and-tell web trend fuels tween addicts October 1, 2010
San Diego Statement	San Diego Statement Newsletter October, 2010
	Do you shop compulsively? August 26, 2010
	Giuliani Daughter Shoplifting Arrest: Is Alleged Theft a Cry for Help? August 5, 2010
The Chronical	Working Through April Lane Benson’s To Buy or Not to Buy August/September, 2010
	Don’t Invest on an Empty Stomach July 29, 2010
	Why You Spend More Than You Think July 1, 2010
Natural Health Magazine	The high of the buy June 2010
	Deal Breakers Summer Issue, 2010
	Buying Trouble Summer Issue, 2010
	Help! My Spending is Boiling Over May 25, 2010
	Are You A Return-a-holic? May 21, 2010
	How To Make Sure Your “Deal” Is Really A Deal March 22, 2010
	To Buy or Not To Buy March 13, 2010
	Are You a Shopaholic? March 8, 2010
	One-Touch Shopping, for Members Only March 4, 2010
*Ivanhoe.com*	Money: Born To Spend February 18, 2010
	Consumer Reports: Four Different Shopping Personalities December 20, 2009
	Holiday Budgets: How to Shop Smart For Gifts December 13, 2009
	How to teach kids not to be greedy December 12, 2009
	Buy, But Beware December 1, 2009
	Holiday season a dangerous time for those with addictions November 18, 2009
	Recession makes consumers more cautious September, 2009
	Cheap thrills come at a real price September, 2009
	The City They Never Leave, pg.3 August 28, 2009
	Why Do Some People Have Addictive Personalities? August, 2009
	10 Questions About Shopping to Fill An Emotional Void August, 2009
	How to Make Better Money Decisions August, 2009
	Suppressing The Urge To Splurge June 20, 2009
	Stop Overshopping: 3 Proven Strategies June 19, 2009
	Last-Minute Splurges: Why You Can’t Resist June 17, 2009
	To Buy or Not to Buy March-April issue, 2009
	Dig Deeper Into Yourself, Not Your Wallet p.17 Winter Edition, 2009
	Breaking the taboo: Talking money with your family March 19, 2009
	To Buy or Not To Buy March 13, 2009
Psychotherapy Finances	Reaching Out to Clients with Debt and Money Troubles March, 2009
	Trouble Stopping Shopping: Compulsive Buying Disorder February 17, 2009
	Buy, buy, buy: Shopaholics find deals too sweet February 12, 2009
	Thanks, recession! Tough Times Help Shopaholics February 12, 2009
	Our stuff, our selves; We all want things. But does getting them really make us happy? February 11, 2009
	Oniomaniac Movie Just in Time for Valentine’s Day February 11, 2009
	Real-life shopaholics in a world of hurt February 8, 2009
	There’s a cure for compulsive shopping February 8, 2009
	Shopaholics will be shopaholics February 5, 2009
	Are Shopaholics Really Ill? February 5, 2009
	Guilty pleasures revised February 2, 2009
	Attention, Shopaholics: Your Weakness May Be a Proper Disease January 28 2009 Edition
	Terrific Tights: A Bright Look to Warm You January 4 2009 Edition
	Shopaholics’ Dilemma December 2008
	I Shop, Therefore I Am Monday, December 29, 2008
	This Year, More Than Ever, It’s Tough to Be a Compulsive Shopper December 14, 2008
	Compulsive Shopping: Disorder or disease? December, 2008
	To Buy or Not to Buy – Overshopping can be an extremely dangerous coping mechanism Tuesday, November 25, 2008
	New TV Special Looks at Compulsive Spenders Who Risk All For a Retail Fix Thursday, July 17, 2008
	Hard Times, but Your Lips Look Great Thursday, May 1, 2008
	Money Talks January 2008
	Sometimes, Shopping Can Be Therapeutic Sunday, April 1, 2007
	Millions May Be Addicted To Shopping Friday, October 13, 2006
	Out of The Addict September/October 2006 Edition
	Buy Now, Pay Later September 2006 Edition
	The Psychology of Shopping Friday, October 7, 2005
	When only the best will do Sunday, July 3, 2005
	King Kong debt meets middle-class life Monday, August 16, 2004
	Helping Shopaholics Buy Into Treatment Tuesday, November 4, 2003
	Slaves to the Sale November 2002 Edition
	Born to Shop Thursday, July 26, 2001
	When Shopping Heals Fall 2000 Edition
	Stop Me Before I Buy Monday, July 12, 1999

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