The Secret Lives of Hoarders
True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 3, 2011
On the front lines with extreme hoarders The Secret Lives of Hoarders is much more than harrowing tales of attacking the ugliest, dirtiest, and most shocking hoarding cases in the country.
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- Who it’s for
- Unsettling cases meet a compassionate account of hoarding and the work of helping people through it.
- Themes
- Compulsive hoarding, Recognizing and addressing hoarding, Cleanup and healing
- Genres
- Living with Hoarding, Compulsive Behavior, Living with OCD
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On the front lines with extreme hoarders The Secret Lives of Hoarders is much more than harrowing tales of attacking the ugliest, dirtiest, and most shocking hoarding cases in the country. It is a behind-the-scenes look at this hidden epidemic- what it means, how to recognize it before it gets out of hand, and how to deal with it.
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Through his work with hundreds of clients in the worst circumstances- from the giant "rat's nest" that hid more than $13,000 in cash to a vast cache of cartoon pornography to twenty-five years' worth of unopened mail-Matt Paxton has learned to understand this disorder and his clients' impulses to collect, to speak the hoarders' language, and to reach out to them with compassion and concern while avoiding criticism and judgment. Most important, he guides compulsive hoarders successfully through every step of the clean-up and healing process. The Secret Lives of Hoarders is an engrossing and sometimes unsettling look at extreme clutter but one that helps hoarders, their families, and their friends to find meaning in the chaos.
Clutter, Compassion, Context
Unsettling cases meet a compassionate account of hoarding and the work of helping people through it.
Come here for
- True accounts that resist treating extreme clutter as spectacle
- A compassionate look at collecting impulses and the work of cleanup and healing
Expect
- A behind-the-scenes perspective shaped by work with hundreds of clients
- Attention to recognition, understanding, and support for hoarders and their families
Where it sits
| Living with Hoarding | 99% |
|---|---|
| Compulsive Behavior | 37% |
| Living with OCD | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Healthcare Issues
- Anxiety & Phobias
- Living with Hoarding
- Authors
- Matt Paxton, Phaedra Hise
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- May 3, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Compulsive hoarding · Recognizing and addressing hoarding · Cleanup and healing
- Reading lane
- Healthcare Issues