The Psychology of Clutter and Hoarding
November 30, 2006
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Identity & The Self
Clutter is a habit; hoarding is an illness, and Armand DiMele draws a clear line between them. He traces hoarding to a fragile sense of self, fear of loss, and compulsive just-in-case thinking, then takes calls from listeners wrestling with their own accumulation and the anger and grief beneath it.