Possessed A Cultural History of Hoarding

Possessed A Cultural History of Hoarding

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In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding-once a paradigm of economic rationality-came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity:...

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Main Author: Falkoff, Rebecca R. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2021
Subjects:
Literature: history & criticism
The self, ego, identity, personality
Social, group or collective psychology
hoarding and wasting, Junk at Porta Ludovica, waste and discard studies, classical liberalism, materialism, bibliomania and hoarding,
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