Twenty-four contributed papers (11 originating in an American Academy of Psychoanalysis symposium) examine the issue of money in life and in therapy how money affects people, how they deal with it, and how it appears in psychotherapy from various psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, and psychosocial persp

Money, like sex, has been essential to the rise and development of civilization. The first known writings were records of simple business transactions and later on money came to be used as a common denominator for all goods. Current dealings with money have become infinitely more complicated than at the beginning of recorded history but its basic meaning is the same, a medium underlying all goods and services, in which comparative values are measured and by which they are acquired. Certainly, money is a vital and essential part of our everyday life. It is hard, if not impossible, to conceive...