This is the web site of psychologist Will Cupchik Ph.D., the original investigator and most experienced clinician to have researched, practiced and published in the area of usually honest adults who steal. He was the senior author of the article titled, Shoplifting: An Occasional Crime Of The Moral Majority, published in the major, peer-reviewed professional journal, The Bulletin of the Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, in 1983. 

    For more than three decades, Dr. Cupchik has been working as a registered Psychologist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with clients who live in the USA, Canada, and other countries. His first book on this topic, titled WHY HONEST PEOPLE SHOPLIFT OR COMMIT OTHER ACTS OF THEFT: The Assessment and Treatment of Atypical Theft Offenders', is available in paperback and as an ebook from most major online booksellers .

His latest book, WHY USUALLY HONEST PEOPLE STEAL: Assessing, Treating and Stopping Nonsenscial Shoplifting and Other Bizarre Theft Behavior, will be available in March 2013, and offers his very latest findings and developments in this field.

These two books may be read as Volumes 1 & 2 on this topic.

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Using Skype, a free download, Dr. Cupchik now offers his services to suitable clients who can work with him from the comfort of their own home or business, without the additional costs and other inconveniences involved in traveling away from home. 

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This site also describes the various activities in which Dr. Cupchik has been engaged throughout his multi-faceted career over the past four-plus decades.

Dr. Cupchik...

• ... has been a psychotherapist for over fifty years. He received training in individual and group therapy at many venues, including the Western Institute For Group And Family Therapy located in Watsonville, California, beginning in 1972. WIGFT's co-directors, Dr. Bob and Mary Goulding, taught their Redecision [Transactional-Gestalt] Therapy approach to attendees at their month-long and other extended workshops; Dr. Cupchik was also a guest lecturer at some of their workshops, and he has been referred to in some of their books.

• ... conducts individual, couples, and intergenerational (parent/adult child) psychotherapy via Skype.

• ... is the originator of numerous original assessment and therapeutic tools. In the latter category is Reintrojection Therapy, a unique approach to uncovering and healing long-term, often painful, remnants of previous and/or ongoing relationships, especially including parent-child difficulties. This approach was reported upon in 1984 in Dr. Cupchik's article titled Reintrojection Therapy: A Procedure For Altering Parental Introjects, in the professional journal, Psychotherapy: Therapy, Research, and Practice. His work in this area was also cited in Dr. Christine Coutrious' important book, Healing the Incest Wound.    

• ... has worked with many clients regarding personally meaningful losses, depression, and anger, as well as on mid-life, mid-career issues, life and executive coaching, and pre-retirement and retirement matters.  

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Dr. Cupchik's working life has been very extensive and varied:

•  he first worked as a professional electrical engineer (in 1961-2) at Computing Devices of Canada, designing navigational guidance systems for the then-next generation of military (including American and Canadian) aircraft; he worked as a:
•  psychometrist and (later) psychologist on the forensic staff at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (12 years total: 1974-86)
•  Psychologist-in-Charge, Forensic Outpatient Psychological Services at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (2 years: 1984-86)
•  Psychologist in private practice (1986 to present)
•  university lecturer in psychotherapy for the Graduate Studies dept of the University of Toronto 
•  developer of various original psychological techniques and pen-an-paper tools in the areas of relationships and atypical theft behavior
•  author of the novel, The Arrow Manipulation: Murdering Medicare 

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  MEDIA in the United States, Britain, Europe, Canada, and Australia have shown considerable interest in Dr. Cupchik's work with usually honest people who steal over the past three decades.  (Below is a partial listing.)

Dr. Cupchik has appeared on : CBS's Early Show,  MSNBC Investigates,  ABC's Good Morning America,   CBS NEWS 48 Hours,  The Sam Donaldson Radio Show, Lifetime Network's New Attitudes Program, The CTV news, CBC news programs, and many more   

He has been quoted in The New York Times...,   Los Angeles Times....,    San Francisco Chronicle...,    Chicago Sun-Tribune....,   Bloomberg News ... SELF magazine...., HEALTH magazine....,  PEOPLE magazine... the Globe and Mail and many other media programs and publications. 

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