Stuff compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things
With vivid portraits that show us the traits by which you can identify a hoarder, Frost and Steketee explain the causes and outline the often ineffective treatments for the disorder while illuminating the pull that possessions exert on all of us.
| Main Author: | Frost, Randy O. |
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| Other Authors: | Steketee, Gail. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston [Mass.]:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2010.
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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 haven't got a clue
- A tree with too many branches : genetics and the brain
- A packrat in the family
- But it's mine! : hoarding in children
- Having, being, and hoarding.