Screen LibraryStuff：compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 290 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780151014231 015101423X |
| Index Number: | R749 |
| CLC: | R749.7 |
| Call Number: | R749.7/F939 |
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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. Frost and Steketee were the first scientists to study hoarding when they began their work. 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. |