Stuff
Subtitle: compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things
By: Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee
Contributors: Steketee, Gail
Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
Publisher: Mariner Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780547422558; 9780547487250
Subjects: Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Compulsive hoarding
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290).

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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 pack rat in the family --; title: But it's mine! : hoarding in children --; title: Having, being, and hoarding.