From China to Brazil to Germany, huge numbers of people are addicted to shopping, driven in part by companies that use gaming ...

Sadie’s struggle is not a new phenomenon. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin described krankhafte Kauflust — the pathological desire to buy — as early as 1899. But many specialists worry ...

A 24-year-old single man was referred to the psychiatric ward of the hospital of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco due to reports of unusual and refractory depression. Two years before admission, the ...

In the winter of 1900, Fuller took a leave of absence from Westborough Insane Hospital to pursue advanced study at the Carnegie Laboratory in New York, and from November 1904 to August 1905, he ...