Stuff [electronic resource] : compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things / Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee.
Publication details: Boston, MA : Mariner Books : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.Edition: 1st Mariner Books edDescription: 1 online resource (290 p.)ISBN:- 9780547487250 (electronic bk.)
- 0547487258 (electronic bk.)
- 616.85/227 22
- RC533 .F76 2011eb
Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | MHERC Hoarding | 616.85/227 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | For the six million sufferers, their relatives and friends, and all the rest of us with complicated relationships to our things, Stuff answers the question of what happens when our stuff starts to own us | A40915649 |
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 Hanven't got a clue -- A tree with too many branches: genetics and the brain -- A pack rat in the family -- But it's mine: hoarding in children -- Having, being and hoarding.
Analyzes the sources of compulsive hoarding behaviors, describing the impact of the disorder on families, case studies of sufferers who have rendered their homes unlivable, and the ineffective treatments they have endured.