Psychology 354 - SEM: ADVANCED ABNORMAL PSYCH
Fall
2014
01
4.00
Randy Frost
Th 03:00-04:50
Smith College
20023-F14
BASS 211
rfrost@smith.edu
Topics course. A seminar on the role of possessions in people?s lives, especially as related to compulsive hoarding, a form of obsessive compulsive dis- order. We will study the empirical research, theories of OCD and hoarding behavior, and efforts to develop treatments for this condition. Related constructs such as compulsive buying and acquisition, materialism, kleptomania, and psychopathologies of acquisition will also be addressed. Prerequisites; PSY 150 or PSY 287.
Topic: The Meaning of Possessions. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores