The Oxford Handbook of Hoarding and Acquiring

Dr. Randy O. Frost is the Harold & Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology at Smith College. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in innovation, treatment, and research in the field of hoarding and cluttering by the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. Dr. Gail Steketee is Dean and Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, and a member of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Her scholarly work has focused on developing and testing treatments for obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders, and especially hoarding. Both Dr. Frost and Dr. Steketee received the Outstanding Career Achievement Award from the International Association for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders.

Part One: Introduction ; 1. Introduction and Overview ; Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee ; 2. Hoarding In History ; Fred Penzel ; Part Two: Phenomenology, Epidemiology, and Diagnosis ; 3. Phenomenology of Hoarding ; Gail Steketee and Randy O. Frost ; 4. Ownership and Collecting ; Russell Belk ; 5. Diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder ; David Mataix-Cols and Lorena Fernandez de la Cruz ; 6. Hoarding Behavior in Other Disorders ; Alberto Pertusa and Andres Fonseca ; 7. Comorbidity in Hoarding Disorder ; Michael G. Wheaton and Anna Van Meter ; 8. Acquisition of Possessions in Hoarding Disorder ; Randy O. Frost and Astrid Muller ; 9. Information Processing ; Kiara R. Timpano, Ashley M. Smith, Julia C. Yang, and Demet Cek ; 10. Emotional Attachment to Objects in Hoarding: A Critical Review of the Evidence ; Stephen Kellett and Kathryn Holden ; 11. Animal Hoarding ; Gary J. Patronek and Catherine R. Ayers ; 12. Severe Domestic Squalor ; Melissa M. Norberg and John Snowdon ; Part Three: Etiology ; 13. Genetics and Family Models of Hoarding Disorder ; Matthew E. Hirschtritt and Carol A. Mathews ; 14. The Neurobiology of Hoarding Disorder ; Kristin Slyne and David F. Tolin ; 15. Hoarding in Animals: The Argument for a Homology ; Stephanie D. Preston ; 16. Psychological Models of Hoarding ; Michael Kyrios ; 17. The Economics of Hoarding ; Brian D. Vickers and Stephanie D. Preston ; Part Four: Assessment and Intervention ; 18. Assessing Hoarding and Related Phenomena ; Jessica R. Grisham and Alishia D. Williams ; 19. Insight and Motivation ; Blaise L. Worden, James DiLoreto, and David F. Tolin ; 20. Individual Cognitive and Behavioral Treatment for Hoarding ; Gail Steketee ; 21. Alternative Treatment Modalities ; Jordana Muroff ; 22. Pharmacotherapy of Compulsive Hoarding ; Sanjaya Saxena ; 23. Family Interventions for Hoarding ; Michael A. Tompkins and Tamara L. Hartl ; 24. Community Interventions for Hoarding ; Christiana Bratiotis and Sheila Woody ; Part Five: Hoarding in Special Populations ; 25. Compulsive Hoarding in Children ; Jennifer M. Park, Joseph F. McGuire, and Eric A. Storch ; 26. Hoarding in Older Adults ; Catherine Ayers, Sadia Najmi, Ian Howard, and Melanie Maddox ; Part Six: Future Directions ; 27. Future Directions for Hoarding Research ; Gail Steketee and Randy O. Frost