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Stuff : compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things / Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee.

by Frost, Randy O.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

616.85227 F939s

Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Compulsive hoarding.

9780547422558 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things

290 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290).

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.

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.

Steketee, Gail.

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