When Stuff Takes Over

By dhahn ()

What compels hoarders to save every newspaper, cardboard box, and item of clothing? Gail Steketee, a professor of psychology and dean of the School of Social Work, has been studying hoarding for 15 years and is the coauthor of three books on the [...]subject. Her most recent, written with Randy Frost, a professor of psychology at Smith College, is "Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things."

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