Stuff compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things
Record details
- ISBN: 9780547487250 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0547487258 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (290 p.) - Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Publisher: Boston, MA : Mariner Books : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290). |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 Hanven't got a clue -- A tree with too many branches: genetics and the brain -- A pack rat in the family -- But it's mine: hoarding in children -- Having, being and hoarding |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Obsessive-compulsive disorder Compulsive hoarding |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |