Friday, May 14th, 2010

Hoarding

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Got stuff? Got more and more and more stuff? We'll talk about the psychology of compulsive hoarding -- the excessive collection of objects that a person is psychologically unable to discard. Draft revisions for DSM-V (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) suggest listing compulsive hoarding as a separate disorder, not merely a subset of Obsessive Compulsive behavior. We'll talk about the condition, and what is known about the psychology of hoarders.

Guests

Randy O. Frost
Author, "Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things," (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
Professor of Psychology
Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts

Related Books

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Related Links

• DSM 5: Proposed Revision: Hoarding Disorder
• International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) - Hoarding Center

Segment produced by:Annette Heist

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