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Author Frost, Randy O.

Title Stuff : compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things / Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
1 hold on first copy returned of 1 copy
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1440539~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  616.85227 FRO    AVAILABLE
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Description 290 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Compulsive hoarding.
Added Author Steketee, Gail.
ISBN 9780151014231
015101423X
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SRP 2010
SRP 2010 X
September 30 2010
SRP 2010 REVIEW: For anyone whose home is too cluttered to invite people over or saves stacks of newspapers and magaiznes to read later; or has a garage so full with stuff that no car can park there -- read this for insight!
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