SEM: ADVANCED ABNORMAL PSYCH Semester: Fall Year: 2015 Subject Name: Psychology Course Number: 354 Institution: Smith College Topics course. A seminar on the role of possessions in people's lives, especially as related to compulsive hoarding, a form of obsessive compulsive disorder and related disorders. We 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 are also addressed. Prerequisites; PSY 150 or PSY 287. Comments: Topic: The Meaning of Possessions. Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores Instructor Permission: Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods. http://www.smith.edu/catalog/ Schedule #: 20023-F15 Course Sections Year - Any -20192018201720162015201420132012 Term - Any -FallSpring Subject Course Number Institution - Any -Amherst CollegeHampshire CollegeMount Holyoke CollegeSmith CollegeUMass Amherst Section Number SEM: ADVANCED ABNORMAL PSYCH Sect # Credits Instructor(s) Instructor Email Meeting Times Location 01 4.0 Randy Frost rfrost@smith.edu Th 01:00-02:50 BASS 211