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Aug. 22, 2014, 2:19 p.m.

The Taboo Against Dealing With Money Issues
Why is it that the literature regarding the psychological meaning of money is so scant? As sated
previously, there is a taboo regarding the subject of money in our society, to which psychotherapists are
not immune. We Americans may complain about taxes, discuss the prospects of Social Security and brag
about the great bargains we found or the killings we made in the stock market, but we seldom discuss
our incomes, our indebtedness or, more generally, how we feel and think about money and how we
relate to others because of it. As therapists, many of us tend to avoid exploring, for ourselves or with our
patients, either the psychological meaning of money or the reality-based importance of our relationships
to it. (Krueger, 1996).

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cauz

Aug. 22, 2014, 2:20 p.m.

In this author?s experience, patients will rarely bring up money issues unless the therapist is willing
to focus attention on them him /or herself. There is only one kind of therapy where discussion of money
and how we relate to it, and to each other because of it, often comes up: marital therapy. It comes up
there because disagreements over money and stresses connected to it are the most common reasons for
marital discord. That, to a significant extent, is the result of the money taboo which results in lack of
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Another psychological approach to understanding people?s involvement with money was offered in
a financial magazine. This article (Sullivan, 1994) presented a classification of money personalities based
on a survey of 2,000 people?s ?inner financial life.? It divided people into seven personality
classifications as follows: 1) Hunters, who are characterized by an aggressive attitude toward the making
spending and investing of money and who tend to have unsettled personal lives and a higher than average
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