Stuff
Subtitle: compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things
By: Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee
Contributors: Steketee, Gail
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780151014231
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290).
Table of contents: title: Dead body in the Collyer Mansion : a prologue to hoarding; title: Piles upon piles : the story of hoarding; title: We are what we own : owning, collecting, and hoarding; title: Amazing junk : the pleasures of hoarding; title: Bunkers and cocoons : playing it safe; title: A fragment of me : identity and attachment; title: Rescue : saving animals from a life on the streets; title: A river of opportunities; title: Avoiding the agony; title: You haven't got a clue; title: A tree with too many branches : genetics and the brain; title: A packrat in the family; title: But it's mine! : hoarding in children; title: Having, being, and hoarding.