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Stuff : compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things

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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.

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 fra... Read more
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290 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 616.8584 FRO in Adult Non-fiction Available

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