Frost is a professor of psychology at Smith College; Steketee is a professor and dean of the School of Social Work at Boston University. Both are international experts on hoarding and ...

Therapist Janet Yeats said she also hopes that the designation of hoarding as a separate diagnosis will lead to further advances in neuroscience, showing more clearly what is happening in the brain ...

America’s most notorious case of hoarding came to light on March 21, 1947, when New York City police were called to investigate a dead body in a three-story Harlem brownstone. The building belonged to ...

NEW BEDFORD — Understanding why hoarders stockpile things and what their collections mean to them is key to helping someone break the cycle of compulsive collecting, Lee Shuer said Thursday at a ...

Hoarding is getting a new definition in the “bible” of psychiatry and experts say it may bring much-needed help to the millions of Americans dealing with the disorder. The psychological condition made ...

On Friday, BU Today spoke with Gail Steketee, a professor and dean of the university's School of Social Work, who has been studying hoarding for 15 years. Prof. Steketee's most recent book on the ...

Whether you are someone who lives around piles of things you cannot throw away, you had an aunt who was too embarrassed to let anyone into her cluttered home or you have seen the TV show “Hoarders,” ...

As noted in an earlier post, "6 Signs of Hoarding Disorder," individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) frequently have other disorders including obsessive-compulsive disorder, clinical depression, ...

Stuff, stuff and more stuff. Many of us love to buy and keep things, even when the items are not useful. About 70 percent of children amass collections of favored objects, such as coins, dolls or ...

At what point does a collection become hoarding? All of us at one time or another had collections whether of stamps, books or plates. “People collect and save objects as a hobby in virtually all ...