- Oxford Library of Psychology
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- Hoarding in History
- Phenomenology of Hoarding
- Ownership and Collecting
- Diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder
- Hoarding Behavior in Other Disorders
- Comorbidity in Hoarding Disorder
- Acquisition of Possessions in Hoarding Disorder
- Information Processing
- Emotional Attachment to Objects in Hoarding: A Critical Review of the Evidence
- Animal Hoarding
- Severe Domestic Squalor
- Genetics and Family Models of Hoarding Disorder
- The Neurobiology of Hoarding Disorder
- Hoarding in Animals: The Argument for a Homology
- Psychological Models of Hoarding
- The Economics of Hoarding
- Assessing Hoarding and Related Phenomena
- Insight and Motivation
- Individual Cognitive and Behavioral Treatment for Hoarding
- Alternative Treatment Modalities
- Pharmacotherapy of Compulsive Hoarding
- Family Interventions for Hoarding
- Community Interventions for Hoarding
- Compulsive Hoarding in Children
- Hoarding in Older Adults
- Future Directions for Hoarding Research
- The Structured Interview for Hoarding Disorder (SIHD; v. 2.0)©
- Hoarding Rating Scale (HRS)
- Saving Inventory—Revised
- UCLA Hoarding Severity Scale
- Activities of Daily Living in Hoarding (ADL-H)
- Saving Cognitions Inventory
- Compulsive Acquisition Scale
- Home Environment Index
- Scoring Keys
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
Although hoarding disorder accounts for the majority of cases of pathological hoarding behavior resulting in severe clutter, hoarding is a heterogeneous symptom that can be present in a range of organic and psychiatric disorders. DSM-5 criteria for hoarding disorder require that the hoarding behavior not be attributed to another medical condition (e.g., brain injury, Prader-Willi syndrome) or psychiatric disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, dementia). With the exception of obsessive–compulsive disorder—and perhaps obsessive–compulsive personality disorder—the clinical characteristics of hoarding in the context of other medical and psychiatric disorders have not yet been subject to much empirical research, and many questions remain open. This chapter focuses on the phenomenology of hoarding as a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder and hoarding secondary to other medical and mental disorders, with an emphasis on the clinical characteristics that allow for differential diagnosis with hoarding disorder.
Keywords: hoarding disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, autism spectrum, dementia, Diogenes syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, learning difficulties, brain injury, affective disorders, depression, anxiety, impulse control disorders, differe
Alberto Pertusa, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, U.K.
Andres Fonseca, Locum Consultant Psychiatrist, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, London, U.K.
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- Hoarding in History
- Phenomenology of Hoarding
- Ownership and Collecting
- Diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder
- Hoarding Behavior in Other Disorders
- Comorbidity in Hoarding Disorder
- Acquisition of Possessions in Hoarding Disorder
- Information Processing
- Emotional Attachment to Objects in Hoarding: A Critical Review of the Evidence
- Animal Hoarding
- Severe Domestic Squalor
- Genetics and Family Models of Hoarding Disorder
- The Neurobiology of Hoarding Disorder
- Hoarding in Animals: The Argument for a Homology
- Psychological Models of Hoarding
- The Economics of Hoarding
- Assessing Hoarding and Related Phenomena
- Insight and Motivation
- Individual Cognitive and Behavioral Treatment for Hoarding
- Alternative Treatment Modalities
- Pharmacotherapy of Compulsive Hoarding
- Family Interventions for Hoarding
- Community Interventions for Hoarding
- Compulsive Hoarding in Children
- Hoarding in Older Adults
- Future Directions for Hoarding Research
- The Structured Interview for Hoarding Disorder (SIHD; v. 2.0)©
- Hoarding Rating Scale (HRS)
- Saving Inventory—Revised
- UCLA Hoarding Severity Scale
- Activities of Daily Living in Hoarding (ADL-H)
- Saving Cognitions Inventory
- Compulsive Acquisition Scale
- Home Environment Index
- Scoring Keys
- Author Index
- Subject Index