Summary: Over 18 million Americans are shopaholics. They suffer from a disorder that makes them buy things compulsively. This can cause all kinds of problems in their lives, but there is help for shopaholics and joining us on the line right now is someone who knows all about that. She is Dr. April Lane Benson, a nationally known psychologist who specializes in the treatment of compulsive buying disorder. Dr. Benson is the author of “To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop” along with “I Shop Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self”.
