WHY  USUALLY HONEST  PEOPLE  SHOPLIFT OR COMMIT OTHER ACTS OF THEFT... and how to stop this self-destructive behavior!

                 Psychologist Dr. Will Cupchik,     

                                                                                                   author of WHY HONEST PEOPLE SHOPLIFT OR COMMIT OTHER ACTS OF THEFT,

                                                                                                   Head of the Atypical Theft Offender Intensive Intervention Program, and 

                                                                                                   member, American Psychological Association, since 1980

Detailed information re Four-Day Intensive Intervention Program led by Dr. Cupchik      

Kleptomania: A chronically and erroneously  misused label     Feedback    Free Brief Telephone Screening Interview                 

Full Telephone Consultations and Counseling Sessions   Method of Paying for Telephone Sessions     

The Cupchik Theft Offender Spectrum          2 Page BROCHURE for 4-Day Intensive Intervention Program

Gerald, An Excellent Example of a Typical Thief Offender         When Celebrities Shoplift         On Execucrime           FAQs

The Cupchik Theft Offender Questionnaire        Practice Information Bulletin   

Two Articles of Potential Interest to Professions and Laypersons     The misuse of Major Anti-depressants for cases of 'Kleptomania'

DR. CUPCHIK'S RESUME

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The Misuse of Antidepressants in Cases of supposed 'Kleptomania'

In his nearly three decades of clinical investigation of cases of atypical theft behavior by usually honest and responsible adults, Dr. Cupchik has found that:

(1) many individuals who have (almost always wrongly) been diagnosed as suffering from Kleptomania have been prescribed one or other of the major (SSRI) antidepressants to supposedly reduce their theft behavior. In most of the cases that Dr. Cupchik has assessed the theft offenders have reported their use has either not reduced the frequency of theft offences, or that the frequency of such acts has actually increased -- often markedly. 

          Also...

(2) in some cases theft offenders indicated that they had never stolen until after they had been placed on antidepressants. 

It is most unfortunate that SSRIs continue to be prescribed in cases of atypical theft behavior before a thorough and appropriate clinical assessment has been carried out to make certain that the offenders had not acted out in response to an external precipitating event, and/or that the stealing was not carried out as an expression of anger or vengeance, as either or both of these factors would preclude the diagnosis of 'kletomania', according to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IVrevised).  

Four-Day Intensive Intervention Program led by Dr. Cupchik       Kleptomania: A chronically misused label

Feedback    Free Brief Telephone Screening Interview                 Full Telephone Consultations and Counseling Sessions

Method of Paying for Telephone Sessions     The Cupchik Theft Offender Spectrum   BROCHURE for 4-Day Intensive Intervention Program 

Gerald, An Excellent Example of a Common or Typical Thief         When Celebrities Shoplift             On Execucrime           FAQs

The Cupchik Theft Offender Questionnaire        Practice Information Bulletin   Two Articles of Potential Interest to Professions and Laypersons

The misuse of Major Anti-depressants for cases of 'Kleptomania'

DR. CUPCHIK'S RESUME

Contact Information

 Dr Will Cupchik, Head, Atypical Theft Offender Intensive Intervention Program

Telephone

416-928-2262

FAX

416-489-8882

 

Postal address

250 St. Clair Avenue West, Suite G-3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 1R6

 

Electronic mail

 
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Last modified: October 15, 2007