Both my father and my mother in-law hoard in a big way. In the case of my father, it's to the point where he won't give me my inheritance from my great-great grandmother even though the deal was to give it to me when I bought my first home. My mother in-law's case is a bit more pronounced. She has s...
Very engaging and compassionate study of hoarders. I found it a little repetitive at times, and I would have liked a little more on the "meaning of things" side. Still, it's fascinating reading.
I have one dog and three cats, onec at more than my limit. Any cat above two is “crazy cat women” territory (in my own circumstances) I'm hoping the presence of the dog would offset this. My mom thinks three cats = animal hoarder.She didn’t have to worry, I’m neither an animal hoarder nor a stuf...
I've seen a few epsiodes of the Hoarders TV show so I was curious about this book. The book takes a much less sensationalized approach with case studies, the psychological basis for the problems, and the approaches to treating them. Not terribly engrossing but usually very interesting.
Randy Frost and Gail Steketee have written a fascinating and compassionate book about hoarding that gives insight into the thought processes a hoarder goes through as he or she considers their stuff. Like many others have commented, I can see some of my own rationale and behaviors within these pages...
Whenever one studies people with behavior at the extreme end of the bell curve, one finds qualities present in most of us. That's my theory. It might not be original. As tool-using apes, there is a definite social utility to be found in collecting stuff and finding new uses for it. This book is ...
Really enjoyed this one. I have a tendency to hoard and have recently been forced to get rid of a lot of things as I moved into a much smaller place. That definitely made me take a look at all the things I had been saving,"just in case." Lots of psychological theories here. One is that hoarders form...
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