1st Edition

How Money Talks

By Lesley Murdin Copyright 2012
    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    Money speaks in everyday life and in literature of our greed and our generosity, our pride and our humiliation and as it passes among us it shows our creativity and our ability to co-operate even while it can also lead us to fight to the death. This book is for psychological therapists and for the general reader interested in human nature. Money has mattered since the first human attempts to symbolise value and enable people to wait for the return on their own labours. Since the financial crisis of 2008 its impact at a macro as well as a micro level is inescapable. It has become a means of exchange, much like language and has opened up social mobility to factors other than birth. This book looks at the origin of money and its history but most of all, what attitudes to money tell us about the way we connect to each other.

    Introduction , Money Talks , I’m a mess , Adrift without a compass , Running up Debts , When do I pay? , Circumvented , Be with me , What Money Means , Money had to be invented , Growing in relation to money , Spendthrift or miser? , Who pays for psychotherapy? , What Money Says To Therapists , How money talks to therapists , Money Matters in the Consulting Room , Conclusion

    Biography

    Lesley Murdin