Psychology 354 - SEM: ADV ABNORMAL: POSSESSIONS

Fall
2017
01
4.00
Randy Frost
T 01:00-02:50
Smith College
10189-F17
BASS 204
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 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.
Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores
Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.