The Money Mirror: How Money Reflects Women's Dreams, Fears and Desires

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The Money Mirrorshows how women's attitudes towards money reflect their feelings about themselves. Through better understanding the ways they relate to money, women can develop positive emotional attitudes and gain control of economic and personal issues.

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Annette R. Lieberman, is a psychotherapist in private practice, has worked with women for more than 25 years, concentrating on issues of women's social and psychological development. She has conducted theme-oriented groups, focusing on various aspects of women and their relationship to money. She is the president of the Demeter Advisory Group, which offers psychological and financial counseling services to women, and the developer of MAPD-The Money Awareness Program.

Deeply involved in women's issues since 1969, she launched a consciousness-raising/therapy group at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, with which she was affiliated, and administered a seminar for residents about feminist issues in psychotherapy. She also developed and conducted programs for women in different stages of the life cycleofor girls, college students, working mothers, single mothers, widows and created vocational training groups that helped women examine career goals.

Today, as a private consultant, she conducts M.A.P. Workshops four times a year for the Actors' Fund of America, as well as annual workshops for the C. G. Jung Foundation and the New York Open Center. She has also led workshops on group dynamics and women's roles at the United Hospital fund, Downstate Medical Center and at the YWCA. She has spoken at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health's Personal Growth Center on many aspects of womens changing roles and gender identity, friendships, and negotiation styles. She has been the subject of numerous articles and interviews, including the" Wall Street Journal, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, New Woman, Woman's World, Harper's Bazaar, " and "Self." In addition, she has appeared on radio and television.

Lieberman is married to an economist/financial advisor and lives in New York City.