TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frost,Randy O.
AU  - Steketee,Gail
TI  - Stuff: compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things 
SN  - 015101423X
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Compulsive hoarding
KW  - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -