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Chargement... My Husband's Under Here Somewhere: Collectors, Packrats, and Compulsive Hoarderspar William C. Strubbe, Janice Strubbe-Wittenberg
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways. This is a good introduction to hoarding behavior. While it is not a self-help book, there is useful information for sufferers and their relatives. ( )Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways. I won this in a LibraryThing member giveaway. This book reads more like a published dissertation: well written with loads of research. Lots of info inside! Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways. Hoarding, Collecting, Pack-rats - These very human anomalies are exposed and explained in this entertaining, yet scholarly narrative by William Strubbe and Janice Strubbe Wittenberg. The authors take the reader into a world where having more stuff is the focal point of a persons life, ambitions, and desires - A world of troubled souls - seeking solace in the never-achievable goal of having it all. Showcasing extreme cases, we are shown how apparently normal persons of high intellect, and social norms spiral downward into an abyss of their making. We are shown some of the causes postulated as the root of this malady, brain dysfunction in specific areas, biochemical imbalances, behavioral reinforcement, among others. The authors also show how recovery is possible, yet often ephemeral in nature and also show us how sometimes the hoarder pays an ultimate price for entombing themselves in their own "stuff". This book is an easy read, well written, and almost conversational. It flows so well that I could not put it down while I flipped to the next chapter seeking the next narrative. As a final note - you may (as I did) examine the inner you - "Am I a candidate for this malady?". I can't answer that now - I'm packing up a box of old stuff I saved - to donate to my local charity. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Peter the Great maintained a human zoo of freakish oddities and also excised his subject's teeth, then saved them. The hapless Collyer brothers crammed their Manhattan brownstone to the brim and accidentally entombed themselves within it. Unable to part with his shorn locks and nail clippings, Howard Hughes stored them all for "safekeeping." Intent upon staving off death, Sarah Winchester feverishly constructed room after room to create a vast mansion.Eccentricity, wealth and death aside, what these people have in common is way too much stuff!Morbidly fascinating tales of hoarders and collectors abound as our acquisitive culture of excess is examined. Wryly observed by a professional clutter-buster and a mental health crisis nurse, the book offers a funny and compassionate commentary on hoarders who collect animals, and collectors who spin out of control, as well as the science behind compulsive hoarding and promising forms of treatment. The reader's journey culminates with musings on the spiritual ramifications of our junk. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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