01833cam a2200289 4500 130174718 TxAuBib 20100415120000.0 090718s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009028273 9780151014231 015101423X DLC DLC IG# BTCTA UPZ IH9 YDXCP TxAuBib Frost, Randy O. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things [ANF] : compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things / Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. Compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things. Boston [Mass : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 290 p. ; 24 cm. 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. 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. 20100415. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Compulsive hoarding. Steketee, Gail. TXGPL