Possessed : : A Cultural History of Hoarding / / Rebecca R. Falkoff.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 18 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface: A Book and Two Hoards
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to Hoardiculture
  • 1 Psychologies: The Personal Library
  • 2 Economies: The Flea Market
  • 3 Epistemologies: The Crime Scene
  • 4 Ecologies: An Oikos for Everything
  • Conclusion: Archive Failures
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index