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About Kima Cargill

I am a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Washington-Tacoma. My research examines how overeating is influenced by living in an affluent culture focused on consuming. I view appetite not only as biological drive, but as part of a broader desire to consume material goods, luxury experiences, food, medications and alcohol. My forthcoming book The Psychology of Overeating: Food and the Culture of Consumerism (Bloomsbury, 2015) argues that overeating is the logical outcome of such insatiable consumerism.

Positions

Present Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
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Present Associate Professor, University of Washington Tacoma ‐ School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
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Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests

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Courses

  • TPSYCH 416: Freud and His Critics
  • TPSYCH 410: Existential Psychology
  • TPSYCH 404: Psychology of Food and Culture
  • TPSYCH 310: Controversies in Clinical Psychology
  • TPSYCH 312: Mental Illness Across Cultures
  • TPSYCH 212: Child Abnormal Psychology
  • TPSYCH 210: Abnormal Psychology

Education

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2002 Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin ‐ Educational Psychology
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1998 M.A., University of Texas at Austin ‐ Educational Psychology
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1993 B.A., University of Texas at Austin ‐ Philosophy & Government
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Contact Information

WCG 308
253-692-4544

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Articles (10)