Dr Will Cupchik, Psychologist and author 

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                 Dr Will Cupchik is the head of the

Cupchik Centre For The Assessment And Treatment 

Of Atypical Theft Offenders'

 


  Using Skype, work via live video with Dr. Cupchik from your own home!!!

Skype is the easy to use, and free video live chatting tool that, assuming your computer is relatively new and you have a suitable webcam and Internet access, may enable you to work with Dr. Cupchik from the comfort of your own home or almost anywhere -no matter where you are in the USA (including Hawaii), Canada, Great Britain, or just about elsewhere in the world-  without having to personally travel to his office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. To arrange for Skype sessions first contact Dr. Cupchik by emailing him at wcupchik@aol.com, and providing him with detailed information about you and the issues you need to address.  

 

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

 

 

Contributions To Psychology

Dr. Will Cupchik has contributed numerous developments to the field of psychology, including the following:

 

IN THE AREA OF STEALING CARRIED OUT BY USUALLY HONEST ADULTS:

  • originator of the Loss Substitution By Stealing Hypothesis that articulates the connection between what an individual perceives as unfair,  personally meaningful losses and their acting out via theft behavior;

  • senior author of the article entitled Shoplifting: An Occasional Crime Of The Moral Majority, published in the professional journal, The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, in 1983

  • author of numerous other articles on this subject that have been published in professional journals, newsletters

  • developer of two assessment tools, the Cupchik Theft Offender Questionnaire © and the Cupchik Theft Offender Spectrum ©

  • originator of a considerable number of innovative approaches to working with these clients

  • author of the book, WHY HONEST PEOPLE SHOPLIFT OR COMMIT OTHER ACTS OF THEFT, REVISED EDITION © [March 2002] [ISBN 1-896342-08-6]

  • providing the website, WhyHonestPeopleSteal.com that offers over 160 (copyrighted) pages of information about the phenomenon of usually honest adults who steal

 

IN THE AREA OF ASSESSING AND ALTERING RELATIONSHIPS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

  • originator Reintrojection Therapy, a psychotherapeutic technique that allows for altering parental and other introjects that the individual lives with, and that affects how he or she interacts with other persons. An article describing this approach was published in the professional journal Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice in 1984
  • developed the Cupchik Relationship Questionnaire ©, a 24-item multiple choice questionnaire that assesses personal relationships on four dimensions
  • originator of 'The Rope Trick' ©, the optimal fantasy exercise with which to assess the statics and dynamics of an interpersonal relationship

 

IN THE AREA OF GESTALT THERAPY

  • Originated the One Way Mirror - Soundproofed Room technique to assist clients who are reluctant to confront 'significant others' in the 'empty chair' because of imagined retribution if they do so

 

 

 

Please note: this DrWillCupchik.com contains many elements, including information pertaining to Dr. Cupchik's programs for Atypical Theft Offenders. For even more information about this topic, you may go to his  www.WhyHonestPeopleSteal.com website, which contains over 25 webpages devoted to this subject. 

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