Stuff

Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Ranked #72 in Organization, Ranked #78 in Minimalism

What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house?

Randy Frost and Gail Steketee were the first to study hoarding when they began their work a decade ago; they expected to find a few sufferers but ended up treating hundreds of patients and fielding thousands of calls from the families of others. Now they explore the compulsion through a series of compelling case studies in...
more

Similar Books

If you like Stuff, check out these similar top-rated books:


Learn: What makes Shortform summaries the best in the world?