The Hoarding Impulse

Suffocation of the Soul

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Compulsive Behaviour, Mental Health
Cover of the book The Hoarding Impulse by Renee M. Winters, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Renee M. Winters ISBN: 9781317549628
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: June 19, 2015
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Renee M. Winters
ISBN: 9781317549628
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: June 19, 2015
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

There has been an increased awareness of hoarding in recent years, but clinical treatments aimed at helping people with this condition often have low success rates.  In The Hoarding Impulse Renee M. Winters explores how depth psychology can enrich current conceptual models and treatment standards for compulsive hoarding. The book presents case studies of prominent sufferers including Edie and Edith Beale, the Collyer Brothers, and Andy Warhol and explores common themes of loss, shame and object clusters.

Winters sets out to provide a clear understanding of a hoarder’s lived experiences and their core schemas of value, worth and personal identity, revealing a direct connection to excessive acquisition of objects.  She illuminates the process of how objects can come to possess a hoarder and become not only their main source of happiness but also part of their identity and in doing so puts forward a new treatment plan based on providing a deeper understanding of and potent treatment approach to what is a core issue for hoarding individuals: the wounding of the soul. This new perspective to treating individuals who hoard helps them in the long term understand their processes, value system, and struggles with negative interpersonal relationships.

Providing a fascinating insight into the psyche of people who struggle with hoarding, this book will be essential reading for depth psychologists, Jungian psychotherapists, psychiatrists, social workers, students of analytical psychology and anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of this complex condition.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

There has been an increased awareness of hoarding in recent years, but clinical treatments aimed at helping people with this condition often have low success rates.  In The Hoarding Impulse Renee M. Winters explores how depth psychology can enrich current conceptual models and treatment standards for compulsive hoarding. The book presents case studies of prominent sufferers including Edie and Edith Beale, the Collyer Brothers, and Andy Warhol and explores common themes of loss, shame and object clusters.

Winters sets out to provide a clear understanding of a hoarder’s lived experiences and their core schemas of value, worth and personal identity, revealing a direct connection to excessive acquisition of objects.  She illuminates the process of how objects can come to possess a hoarder and become not only their main source of happiness but also part of their identity and in doing so puts forward a new treatment plan based on providing a deeper understanding of and potent treatment approach to what is a core issue for hoarding individuals: the wounding of the soul. This new perspective to treating individuals who hoard helps them in the long term understand their processes, value system, and struggles with negative interpersonal relationships.

Providing a fascinating insight into the psyche of people who struggle with hoarding, this book will be essential reading for depth psychologists, Jungian psychotherapists, psychiatrists, social workers, students of analytical psychology and anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of this complex condition.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Algarve Building by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Giving Voice to Profound Disability by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Promoting Integrity by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Women Writing Latin by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book War and Society in Early Modern Europe by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Degraded Forests in Eastern Africa by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book The Life and Career of William Paulet (c.1475–1572) by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Russian-Belarusian Integration by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763-1995 by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Papers on Accounting History (RLE Accounting) by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Ruin and Restoration by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book The History of Gauged Brickwork by Renee M. Winters
Cover of the book Scientific Models of Legal Reasoning by Renee M. Winters
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy