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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.Description: 290 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780151014231
  • 9780547422558
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.85/227 22
LOC classification:
  • RC533 .F76 2010
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.

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.

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