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New York TimesĀ bestseller. "Gripping . . . By turns fascinating and heartbreaking . . .Ā
StuffĀ invites readers to reevaluate their desire for things."ā
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"Amazing . . . utterly engrossing . . . Read it."ā The Washington Post Book World
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What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a person to sacrifice her marriage or career for an accumulation of seemingly useless things? Randy Frost and Gail Steketee were the first to study hoarding when they began their work a decade ago. They didn't expect that they would end up treating hundreds of patients and fielding thousands of calls from the families of hoarders. Their vivid case studies (reminiscent of Oliver Sacks) inĀ StuffĀ show how you can identify a hoarderāpiles on sofas and beds that make the furniture useless, houses that can be navigated only by following small paths called goat trails, vast piles of paper that the hoarders "churn" but never discard, even collections of animals and garbageāand illuminate the pull that possessions exert over all of us. Whether we're savers, collectors, or compulsive cleaners, very few of us are in fact free of the impulses that drive hoarders to extremes.
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"Authoritative, haunting, and mysterious. It is also intensely, not to say compulsively readable."āTracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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"Fascinating . . . a good mix of cultural and psychological theories on hoarding."ā Newsweek
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"Pioneering researchers offer a superb overview of a complex disorder that interferes with the lives of more than six-million Americans . . . An absorbing, gripping, important report."ā Kirkus ReviewsĀ (starred review)
Ā
"Amazing . . . utterly engrossing . . . Read it."ā The Washington Post Book World
Ā
What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a person to sacrifice her marriage or career for an accumulation of seemingly useless things? Randy Frost and Gail Steketee were the first to study hoarding when they began their work a decade ago. They didn't expect that they would end up treating hundreds of patients and fielding thousands of calls from the families of hoarders. Their vivid case studies (reminiscent of Oliver Sacks) inĀ StuffĀ show how you can identify a hoarderāpiles on sofas and beds that make the furniture useless, houses that can be navigated only by following small paths called goat trails, vast piles of paper that the hoarders "churn" but never discard, even collections of animals and garbageāand illuminate the pull that possessions exert over all of us. Whether we're savers, collectors, or compulsive cleaners, very few of us are in fact free of the impulses that drive hoarders to extremes.
Ā
"Authoritative, haunting, and mysterious. It is also intensely, not to say compulsively readable."āTracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Ā
"Fascinating . . . a good mix of cultural and psychological theories on hoarding."ā Newsweek
Ā
"Pioneering researchers offer a superb overview of a complex disorder that interferes with the lives of more than six-million Americans . . . An absorbing, gripping, important report."ā Kirkus ReviewsĀ (starred review)
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Authorsā Note
- Dead Body in the Collyer Mansion
- Piles Upon Piles
- We Are What We Own
- Amazing Junk
- Bunkers and Cocoons
- A Fragment of Me
- Rescue
- A River of Opportunities
- Avoiding the Agony
- You Havenāt Got a Clue
- A Tree with Too Many Branches
- A Pack Rat In the Family
- But Itās Mine!
- Having, Being, and Hoarding
- Reference List
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Connect with HMH
- Footnotes