Stuff : compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things /

Analyzes the sources of compulsive hoarding behaviors, describing the impact of the disorder on families, case studies of sufferers who have rendered their homes unlivable, and the ineffective treatments they have endured.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frost, Randy O.
Other Authors: Steketee, Gail
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Mariner Books : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Edition:1st Mariner Books ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dead body in the Collyer mansion: a prologue to hoarding
  • Piles upon piles: the story of hoarding
  • We are what we own: owning, collecting and hoarding
  • Amazing junk: the pleasures of hoarding
  • Bunkers and cocoons: playing it safe
  • A fragment of me: identity and attachment
  • Rescue: saving animals from a life on the streets
  • A river of opportunities
  • Avoiding the agony
  • You Hanven't got a clue
  • A tree with too many branches: genetics and the brain
  • A pack rat in the family
  • But it's mine: hoarding in children
  • Having, being and hoarding.