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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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Yourgrau, Barry > Mental health.
Compulsive hoarding.
Housekeeping.
Storage in the home.
Authors > Biography.
Obsessive Hoarding > Personal Narratives.
Yourgrau, Barry > Homes and haunts.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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