• ISBN13: 9780547422558
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: January 4, 2011
• Pages: 290
• Original Price: USD 19.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 277 grams

<p><b>From the Back Cover</b><br>New York Times Bestseller"""Gripping . . . by turns fascinating and heartbreaking . . . "Stuff" invites readers to reevaluate their desire for things." "Boston Globe""Authoritative." Wall Street JournalWhat possesses someone to fill warehouses with unread magazines? Or to pack a house so full that clearing it out must be done from the top down lest the upper story collapse? When Randy Frost and Gail Steketee became the first scientists to study hoarding, they expected to find a few sufferers. Instead, they uncovered a startling epidemic. Now, they distill the results of more than a decade of research into a series of engrossing and intimate case studies. Through towering piles on sofas and beds, vast mountains of paper that the hoarders "churn" but never discard, even a nest of more than two hundred cats, Frost and Steketee illuminate the pull that possessions exert on all of us. Probing the disquieting place where normal and abnormal blur, they answer the question: What happens when our stuff starts to own us?"Fascinating . . . A good mix of cultural and psychological theories on hoarding." "Newsweek"Dr. Randy Frost is Professor of Psychology at Smith College and an internationally known expert on obsessive-compulsive disorder and compulsive hoarding, as well as the pathology of perfectionism. Dr. Gail Steketee is Professor and Dean at Boston University in the School of Social Work. Together they have studied hoarding for more than a decade, and published a clinical treatment manual and a self-help handbook for hoarding. They have appeared on numerous television and radio shows and given hundreds of lectures on the subject nationally and internationally. <P>"</p>