· Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. By Kate Dailey On 4/29/10 at PM EDT. Culture. by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. · Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things: Authors: Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects4/5(51). 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 Acting 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 /5().
Selected Publications. Co-author. The Oxford Handbook of Hoarding and Acquiring, with Gail bltadwin.ru University Press, Co-author. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, with Gail bltadwin.ruon Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, Co-author. Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving and Hoarding, with David Tolin and Gail Steketee. Frost previously estimated as many as 2% to 3% of the population has OCD, and up to a third of those exhibit hoarding behavior (Cohen, ), but in this new book, he suggests that between % of the population exhibits hoarding behavior, million people (p. 9). Randy Frost is a Professor of Psychology at Smith College in the USA, and an internationally recognised thought leader on the treatment of hoarding. I have followed his work for many years. His live workshop was outstanding. He has the rare ability to take a complex issue and make it easy to understand. One of the things he talked about was the.
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. Review By PETER D. KRAMER. Working with a patient he calls Debra, a compulsive hoarder, the psychologist Randy O. Frost tried a simple experiment. Frost proposed sending Debra a postcard, blank but for the name and address. Debra’s assignment was to throw it away. The most common reason for evictions in the US and a significant risk factor for fatal house fires, compulsive hoarding is a treatable condition related to obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is characterized by the acquisition of possessions that have little or no value, which the sufferer, often referred to as the saver, has great difficulty discarding. In “Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things,” Frost, a professor at Smith College, and Gail Steketee, a professor and dean of the school of social work at Boston University.
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