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The Last Taboo: Money as Symbol & Reality in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
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261 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1986
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David Krueger
21 books22 followersDavid Krueger, M.D. is an Executive Mentor Coach, and CEO of MentorPath, an executive coaching, publishing, and wellness firm. His approach integrates the insights of psychology, neuroscience, and professional coaching to help professionals and executives write the next chapter of their business stories.
Author of 23 trade and professional books on success, wellness, money, and self-development, and seventy-five scientific papers, his coaching and writing focus on the art and science of success strategies: mind over matters.
The Secret Language of Money. (McGraw Hill)
is a Business Bestseller and translated into 10 languages
A Mentor/Trainer Coach and Dean of Curriculum for Coach Training Alliance, he has been quoted in Money, Fortune, Forbes, Town and Country, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Founder and Director of his own licensed, specialty-certified New Life Story™ Coaches, he has trained professionals worldwide. www.NewLifeStoryCoaching.com
Dr. Krueger formerly practiced and taught Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He was listed in The Best Doctors in America (Woodward/White, Inc. Publishers) annually from 1996-2002, and was listed in America’s Top Psychiatrists (Consumer Research Council of America, Washington DC). He founded and served as CEO for two healthcare corporations, co-founded a third startup that went from venture capital to merger/acquisition. He gives keynote addresses nationally and internationally.
www.MentorPath.com
dkrueger@mentorpath.com
Most recent releases:
Paragon House release on March 8, 2019
ENGAGING THE INEFFABLE: Toward Mindfulness and Meaning (Paragon House)
YOUR NEW MONEY STORY: The Beliefs, Behaviors, and Brain Science to Rewire for Wealth (Rowman & Littlefield, New York/London)
Author of 23 trade and professional books on success, wellness, money, and self-development, and seventy-five scientific papers, his coaching and writing focus on the art and science of success strategies: mind over matters.
The Secret Language of Money. (McGraw Hill)
is a Business Bestseller and translated into 10 languages
A Mentor/Trainer Coach and Dean of Curriculum for Coach Training Alliance, he has been quoted in Money, Fortune, Forbes, Town and Country, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Founder and Director of his own licensed, specialty-certified New Life Story™ Coaches, he has trained professionals worldwide. www.NewLifeStoryCoaching.com
Dr. Krueger formerly practiced and taught Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He was listed in The Best Doctors in America (Woodward/White, Inc. Publishers) annually from 1996-2002, and was listed in America’s Top Psychiatrists (Consumer Research Council of America, Washington DC). He founded and served as CEO for two healthcare corporations, co-founded a third startup that went from venture capital to merger/acquisition. He gives keynote addresses nationally and internationally.
www.MentorPath.com
dkrueger@mentorpath.com
Most recent releases:
Paragon House release on March 8, 2019
ENGAGING THE INEFFABLE: Toward Mindfulness and Meaning (Paragon House)
YOUR NEW MONEY STORY: The Beliefs, Behaviors, and Brain Science to Rewire for Wealth (Rowman & Littlefield, New York/London)
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January 19, 2026
The Last Taboo takes on a subject that is central to therapeutic work yet often avoided or oversimplified: money. Rather than treating fees, payment, and financial boundaries as merely administrative concerns, this collection examines money as both a concrete reality and a powerful symbolic presence in the therapeutic relationship.
What makes the book especially compelling is its depth and nuance. The contributors explore how money intersects with transference, countertransference, power, value, dependency, and ethics not as abstract theory, but as lived clinical experience. The essays invite careful reflection rather than easy conclusions, acknowledging the discomfort and complexity that money introduces into analytic work.
The editorial framing does an excellent job of holding these diverse perspectives together. Money is shown to be inseparable from questions of worth, care, authority, and mutual responsibility, making the topic relevant not only to psychoanalysts but to any clinician engaged in long-term relational work.
This is a thoughtful, challenging volume that rewards slow reading. It encourages clinicians to bring greater awareness and honesty to an area of practice that is often left unexamined, despite its profound impact on the therapeutic frame.
Author contact (for professional correspondence):
authorursulavemon@gmail.com
What makes the book especially compelling is its depth and nuance. The contributors explore how money intersects with transference, countertransference, power, value, dependency, and ethics not as abstract theory, but as lived clinical experience. The essays invite careful reflection rather than easy conclusions, acknowledging the discomfort and complexity that money introduces into analytic work.
The editorial framing does an excellent job of holding these diverse perspectives together. Money is shown to be inseparable from questions of worth, care, authority, and mutual responsibility, making the topic relevant not only to psychoanalysts but to any clinician engaged in long-term relational work.
This is a thoughtful, challenging volume that rewards slow reading. It encourages clinicians to bring greater awareness and honesty to an area of practice that is often left unexamined, despite its profound impact on the therapeutic frame.
Author contact (for professional correspondence):
authorursulavemon@gmail.com
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