oniomania
shopaholism

The consequences of oniomania, which may persist long after a spree, can be devastating, with marriages, long-term relationships, and jobs all feeling the strain.

Oniomania is the most frequent comorbid impulse disorder in people suffering from pathological gambling.

As consumer outlets multiply globally, on- and off-line, so too other areas of the world are catching up with the US in oniomania.

Social conditions also play an important role in oniomania, the rise of consumer culture contributing to the view of compulsive buying as a specifically postmodern addiction.

I wondered whether Go Shop technology could convert someone with mild oniomania (compulsive shopping disorder) into a total shopaholic with serious financial problems.

Researchers at Melbourne University have advocated its classification as a psychological disorder called oniomania or compulsive shopping disorder.

Compulsive shopping has at least some of the hallmarks of a proper disease, beginning with a classical diagnostic tag: oniomania, from the Greek verb for "to buy."

Kraepelin originally described oniomania over a century ago, and he and Bleuler [1924] both included the syndrome in their influential early psychiatric textbooks.

Compulsive buying disorder (CBD), or oniomania, is characterized by an obsession with shopping and buying behavior that causes adverse consequences.

What differentiates oniomania from healthy shopping is the compulsive, destructive and chronic nature of the buying; where shopping can be a positive root to self-expression, in excess it represents a dangerous threat.

The film begins with Alex (Steven Molony) and his accomplice Murphy (Timothy J. Meyer) as they set out on a slapdash robbery spree to feed the former's self-proclaimed oniomania.