Stuff（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　We’ve seen them in a Dateline story or an Oprah feature: homes
that have become improbable repositories of – literally – tons of
stuff. The camera crews zoom in on rooms crammed floor-to-ceiling
with stacks of newspapers and magazines. We watch, fascinated, as
professional organizers attack the untidy rooms, or the host
expresses horror at a filthy kitchen, but never ask the larger
question: How did it come to this? STUFF is the first book to
explore compulsive hoarding, a disorder that affects as many as six
million people. Using the latest research, much of which they
pioneered in their decade of study, along with vivid case histories
of a range of hoarders (animal collectors, compulsive shoppers,
elderly packrats, scavengers), Frost and Steketee describe the
various causes of hoarding – psychological and biological–and the
traits by which you can identify a hoarder. In a portrait that
disproves many of our assumptions about the often-hidden disease
(for example, most hoarders aren’t reacting to childhood poverty or
deprivation), they also examine the forces behind a hoarder’s
behavior and the ways in which they affect all of us, whether it’s
the passion of a collector, the rigor of someone whose desk is
always clean, the sentimentality of the person who saves ticket
stubs. For the sufferers, their relatives and friends, and all the
rest of us with complicated relationships to our things, STUFF
answers the question of what happens when our stuff starts to own
us.

Dead Body in the Collyer Mansion: A Prologue to Hoarding
1. Piles upon Piles: The Story of Hoarding
2. We Are What We Own: Owning, Collecting, and Hoarding
3. Amazing Junk: The Pleasures of Hoarding
4. Bunkers and Cocoons: Playing It Safe
5. A Fragment of Me: Identity and Attachment
6. Rescue: Saving Animals from a Life on the Streets
7. A River of Opportunities
8. Avoiding the Agony
9. You Haven’t Got a Clue
10. A Tree with Too Many Branches: Genetics and the Brain
11. A Pack Rat in the Family
12. But It’s Mine! Hoarding in Children
13. Having, Being, and Hoarding
Reference List
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