The Hoarding Impulse
eBook - ePub

The Hoarding Impulse

Suffocation of the Soul

  1. 132 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Hoarding Impulse

Suffocation of the Soul

About this book

There has been an increased awareness of hoarding in recent years, but clinical treatments aimed at helping people with this condition often have low success rates. In The Hoarding Impulse Renee M. Winters explores how depth psychology can enrich current conceptual models and treatment standards for compulsive hoarding. The book presents case studies of prominent sufferers including Edie and Edith Beale, the Collyer Brothers, and Andy Warhol and explores common themes of loss, shame and object clusters.

Winters sets out to provide a clear understanding of a hoarder's lived experiences and their core schemas of value, worth and personal identity, revealing a direct connection to excessive acquisition of objects. She illuminates the process of how objects can come to possess a hoarder and become not only their main source of happiness but also part of their identity and in doing so puts forward a new treatment plan based on providing a deeper understanding of and potent treatment approach to what is a core issue for hoarding individuals: the wounding of the soul. This new perspective to treating individuals who hoard helps them in the long term understand their processes, value system, and struggles with negative interpersonal relationships.

Providing a fascinating insight into the psyche of people who struggle with hoarding, this book will be essential reading for depth psychologists, Jungian psychotherapists, psychiatrists, social workers, students of analytical psychology and anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of this complex condition.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Hoarding as an epidemic
  10. 2 Identifications and projections placed on objects
  11. 3 Media influence and consumerism versus human survival
  12. 4 Seeing the person in the hoarder
  13. 5 Turning a diagnosis into soul work
  14. 6 Attending to the voices of hoarders
  15. 7 Personal stories of hoarders
  16. 8 Themes identified with hoarders
  17. 9 Burying emotions with objects
  18. 10 Soul work toward recovery
  19. References
  20. Index