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The linked web pages on this website describe the work of Psychologist Dr. Will Cupchik, the most senior and experienced clinical investigator of the atypical theft behavior of usually law-abiding, ethical and honest individuals. We sincerely believe you will find a great deal of helpful information on this topic.

A good place to start reading this website is on the Skype-Based Intervention Program webpage, which has a considerable amount of informative material to get you started on this fascinating and important subject. You will find here vitally important information that directly relates to understanding and helping many of the thousands of usually honest persons in the USA who are justifiably  concerned and confused about their seemingly nonsensical and certainly self-destructive theft behavior. To go directly to that important webpage, just click on the following: SKYPE (webcam)-based, 20 session, Intensive Intervention Program.

- The Kleptomania: A chronically and erroneously  misused label webpage describes briefly why it is that this term is massively and erroneously used. Dr. Cupchik's findings indicate clearly why it is that cases of genuinely true kleptomania rarely exist, because nearly all the many hundreds of theft offenders whom he has assessed over nearly four decades, acted out of anger and/or vengeance, which is an exclusionary factor for the apt diagnosis of kleptomania, according to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual's DSM-IV criteria.

- the  Media Contacts webpage indicates the breadth of interest of the media in the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and elsewhere have expressed in Dr. Cupchik's work. He has appeared on American and Canadian Network Television programs numerous times, frequently when a prominent individual has inexplicitly been apprehended for shoplifting.  He has also been quoted in the New York Times, PEOPLE magazine, and many other print and electronic medical.

- the Curriculum Vitae [Resume] webpage provides a detailed summary of Dr Cupchik's extensive academic and work history, as well as a listing of his publications.

- In addition you will find other webpages on this site that offer a considerable amount of additional worthwhile information. Just click on the links provided at the top of each and bottom of every webpage to do directly to the pages that may interest you the most. 

                                                                                 - last updated March 18, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LEu6p9sqk  (segment of a public talk)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbv5rka8eUI (Dr Cupchik at his office)