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

by Frost, Randy O.

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Boston, MA : Mariner Books, 2011.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Compulsive hoarding.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=12CC18EE-B111-4D47-A5DE-C44C9D94D03A This title is available online; click here to access

9780547487250 (electronic bk.)

0547487258 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (290 p.)

1st Mariner Books ed.

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.

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