metaphor or dream Page 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, VOL. 3,
NO. 2, 1998 123 Money and psychotherapy: object, metaphor or dream JEREMY HOLMES …

Abstract" the many deep emotions and conflicts often associated with money cannot be
suppressed and brushed under the carpet, and are bound to interfere with the therapeutic …

Therapists are often as uncomfortable as their clients are with discussing the fee, and this
reticence can undermine the therapeutic relationship. Increasingly, it is recognized that …

Money is ubiquitous, and individuals' attitudes to money are rife with ambivalence and
dysphoria. Medical training neglects money issues; thus, many physicians remain with …

A money taboo hinders the ability of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts to address the
meaning of money in their clients' lives and in the transference and countertransference …

It is nothing new to suggest that money has meaning. Whether or not one accepts Freud's
(1908) linkage of money and feces, within our culture money is frequently seen as a direct …

I've talked and written about" Money and Psychotherapy," over the past five years, but it took
an invitation ftom Bob Weitz, our distinguished chairman, to make me focus on the female …

Money is a concrete representation of energy. As such, it is a primary vehicle for the
exchange of individual and collective energy in consumer-based societies. It is also an …

Money is significant in many relationships, including that of psychotherapy. Yet within
analytic writing it is often neglected. The early writings of Freud and Ferenczi are somewhat …

Drawing on literature from different psychotherapeutic traditions, the meaning of money is
reviewed, and the psychological and practical issues which arise from the setting, changing …