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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
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Author
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Randy O. Frost & Gail Steketee.
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Publisher
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Houghton Mifflin
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hardcover
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9.25
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ISBN
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9780151014231
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Pages/Publication Date
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290/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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21019
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Description
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What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that has ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Jerry and Alvin, wealthy twin bachelors who filled up matching luxury apartments with countless pieces of fine art, not even leaving themselves room to sleep? When psychologists Randy Frost and Gail Steketee began to study hoarding in the early 1990s, they expected to find a few sufferers; they ended up treating hundreds of patients and fielding thousands of calls from the families of others. Here they explore the compulsion through case studies and lay out the traits by which you can identify a hoarder. They also illuminate the pull that possessions exert on all of us, whether we're savers, collectors, or compulsive cleaners. "[The authors] invite us graciously into territory that might otherwise make us squirm.... To those who need to understand hoarders, perhaps in their own family, Stuff offers perspective. For general readers, it is likely to provide useful stimulus for examining how we form and justify our own attachments to objects."—NYTBR
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