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This is the official
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 many other
countries. He is author of the book,
Why
Honest People Shoplift Or Commit Other Acts Of Theft: Assessment and
Treatment of Atypical Theft Offenders', now available for
download onto your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, or NOOK .
Now, using Skype, a free download,
Dr.Cupchik 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.
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 counselor and psychotherapist for over forty-eight years. He received training in individual and
group therapy at many venues, including the former 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 week-long and 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.
- ... conducted individual, couples, and
intergenerational (parent/adult child) psychotherapy via the use of Skype,
for clients who would work from their homes.
- ... 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 specifically cited in Dr. Christine
Coutrious's important book, Healing the Incest Wound.
- ... worked with many clients on issues of loss,
depression, and anger, as well as on mid-life, mid-career
issues, life and executive coaching, and pre-retirement
and retirement matters.
- ... now uses
Skpye to offer a 20-session, video-enabled
services to clients who prefer to work with Dr. Cupchik without
having to leave home.
- ... is the author of the best-selling
book (in its category on BarnesandNoble.com in its category
(keyword: shoplifting), titled WHY
HONEST PEOPLE SHOPLIFT OR COMMIT OTHER ACTS OF THEFT: ASSESSMENT AND
TREATMENT OF 'ATYPICAL THEFT OFFENDERS'
Dr. Cupchik's working life has been very
extensive and varied:
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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, and then as a:
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high school science and
mathematics teacher
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guidance counselor and (later) attendance counselor
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psychotherapist for over
forty-seven years, working with adolescents, adults, couples and
groups
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psychometrist and (later)
psychologist on the forensic staff at the Clarke Institute of
Psychiatry (12 years total: 1974-86)
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Psychologist-in-Charge,
Forensic Outpatient Psychological Services at the Clarke
Institute of Psychiatry (2 years: 1984-86)
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Psychologist in private
practice (1986 to present)
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university lecturer in
psychotherapy for the Graduate Studies dept of the
University of Toronto
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developer of various
original psychological techniques and pen-an-paper tools in the
areas of relationships
and atypical theft behavior
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non-fiction author of the
book,
Why Honest People Shoplift
Or Commit Other Acts Of Theft
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author of the novel,
The Arrow Manipulation,(currently
available from the Canadian Air And Space Museum)
and
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webmaster of this and other
websites.
Various Media in the United States,
Britain, Europe, Canada, and Australia have shown considerable
interest in Dr. Cupchik's work over the past three and one-half decades.
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....,
...and 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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IMPORTANT
NOTE: TO VIEW AN EIGHT MINUTE SEGMENT OF A TALK THAT DR.
CUPCHIK GAVE ON THE SUBJECT OF ATYPICAL THEFT BEHAVIOR, ON
YOUTUBE, CLICK HERE -->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LEu6p9sqk
To
inquire about having Dr. Cupchik speak to your professional
group conference or business meeting, contact Kelly
MacDonald-Hill, Senior Vice PResident, Speakers' Spotlight, at
1-800-333-4453, or email her at -->
Kelly@speakers.ca |
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