Stuff Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Name: Stuff Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
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ISBN: 9780151014231

ISBN-10: 015101423X

ISBN-13: 9780151014231

Edition: 2010

Authors: Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee

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We've seen them in a Dateline story or an Oprah feature: homes that have become improbable repositories of literally tons of stuff. The camera crews zoom in on rooms crammed floor-to-ceiling with stacks of newspapers and magazines. We watch, fascinated, as professional organizers attack the untidy rooms, or the host expresses horror at a filthy kitchen, but never ask the larger question: How did it come to this?STUFF is the first book to explore compulsive hoarding, a disorder that affects as many as six million people. Using the latest research, much of which they pioneered in their decade of study, along with vivid case histories of a range of hoarders (animal collectors, compulsive…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/20/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



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 Haven'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


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