Mess one man's struggle to clean up his house and his act

The author draws on his experiences as both a hoarder and an investigator to profile subjects ranging from professional decluttering services and anti-hoarding therapy to the brain science behind hoarding and the way clutter affects relationships.

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Main Author: Yourgrau, Barry (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Prologue with grocery bags -- The Chinese puzzle box -- What's wrong with me? -- Some kind of flâneur -- Let the right one in -- Brothers Grim -- The cut-glass hand bell -- Mastering disaster -- Dodge days, or, Letting go of L.A. -- Home comforting -- The real stuff -- The notorious bungalow --Freud's "dirty" couch -- The red fish -- Gordon's know -- Postscript. 
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650 0 |a Housekeeping. 
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