Thursday, September 8, 2011

i shop therefore::A wellwritten, wellchosen, welledited series of essays on overshopping would have been worth the price i shop therefore

i shop therefore::A wellwritten, wellchosen, welledited series of essays on overshopping would have been worth the price.
Not this relatively simplistic analysis.
I do believe i grasped that by about the 5th repetition.
This obvious point is repeated again and again and again in different essays, which means that there was a mindnumbing sameness to many of them.
One essay, two at the most, to make the basic points then on to something more substantive.
For example, is childhood sexual assault an important variable in overshopping?
What about physical abuse?
What about child neglect, or presentday illness or disability?
Secondly, there is no consideration of what to do when overshoppers have other very serious mental health problems even though it is stated that other problems, such as overeating, often coexist.
The essay on clothes is particularly poor.
Secondly, in many parts of the world, this is demonstrably untrue.
Women wear the chador and it is designed to be as ugly and unrevealing as possible.
I have heard that underneath it, women often dress up to impress each other, but in public they are to be concealed.
So the treatment of clothes was very, very simple, and very much focused on current times and western sensibilities, making me wonder why it was written.
What is considered appropriate wear for women has changed dramatically over the past 200 years.
Are women from religious families more or less likely to buy clothes compulsively, or does it not matter?
Are overweight people more or less likely to buy clothes compulsively?
Of course basic financial information needs to be imparted, but telling clients how to find meaning in their lives seems the opposite of what a good therapist should be doing.
Letting clients discover it for themselves, which may have nothing to do with a simplicity circle, seems a lot better.

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