Stuff
Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Format: Book
Description: 290 pages ; 24 cm
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.
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.
ISBN:
9780151014231
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PSYCHOLOGY Condition Fro | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | Held |
PSYCHOLOGY Condition Fro | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/1/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-290).