Mind over Money: Match Your Personality to a Winning Financial Strategy

Our brains may not be wired for successful investing. Greed, fear, pride, and shame make for plenty of irrational behavior on Wall Street, little of it profitable. Investors fall victim to a variety of mild mental disorders that are diagnosed in this insightful book by John W. Schott, who is both a professional money manager and a practicing psychoanalyst on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He shows how to become a more confident investor who is able to guard against the whipsaw emotions that can obscure wisdom. Schott also offers sensible investment advice and even publishes his own core portfolio.