"This is a very good book. I highly recommend it. If you are a compulsive or chronic shopper – as millions are – it may well save your sanity, your relationships, your marriage, or even your life."

Jerrold Mundis
Author, "How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously and Making Peace with Money"

"With To Buy or Not to Buy, Dr. Benson has written an extremely helpful book for the millions of Americans afflicted with compulsive buying. She shows compulsive buyers how to uncover the individual psychological and social roots of their disordered behavior. She helps them understand that material goods are masqueraders luring them from the real satisfactions they seek in life. She provides wise means to achieve a fulfilling life instead of experiencing the endless dissatisfaction brought by the mindless, soulless pursuit of possessions. Her book provides a rational, practical, clear, step-by-step method to first recognize, second control and lastly abandon the material and emotional poverty of compulsive buying. I recommend it without hesitation to compulsive buyers and to those who love them."

Lorrin Koran, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Stanford University Medical School

"In this warm, wonderful book, Dr. Benson has given overshoppers an eminently readable road map filled with valuable exercises with which to make the journey from overshoppping and overspending to full recovery and life balance. As a money psychology expert for over 25 years, I particularly enjoyed her use of mindfulness techniques, and exploration of spirituality as part of the healing process. Every overshopper needs to buy and use this book!"

Olivia Mellan
Speaker, Money Coach
Author, "Overcoming Overspending: A Winning Plan for Spenders and their Partners"