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COMPULSIVE HOARDING
RESEARCH
Marketing Research
A study of hoarding behavior
and attachment to
material possessions
Psychiatr
Serv 61:205, February 2010
doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.61.2.205
Personalized Intervention for
Those At Risk of Eviction
by Carolyn Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D.,
Lisa Panero, M.S.W. and Audrey Tannen
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/61/2/205
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
Published online by
Cambridge University Press January 12, 2010
Compulsive Hoarding : an interpretive phenomenological
analysis
Abstract:
Background: This project aimed to explore the
experiences of people who compulsively hoard and how they make sense of
their own
hoarding behaviours.
Method: A total of 11
compulsive hoarders were recruited and interviewed using a simple
semi-structured interview format,
designed for the purposes of the study. The resulting transcribed
interviews were analyzed using interpretive-phenomenological analysis.
Results: Four super-ordinate discrete, but
interacting, themes were found: (1) childhood factors; (2) the
participants' relationship to their hoarded items;
(3) cognitive and behavioural avoidance of discard; and (4) the impact
of hoarding on self, others and the home environment. The themes as a
whole
described people entrapped in massively cluttered physical environments
of their own making. Efforts at discard appeared consistently
sabotaged by cognitive/behavioural avoidance, thereby creating maintaining
factors of associated personal distress and environmental decline.
Conclusions: The results are discussed in the context of
the extant evidence concerning hoarding, the distinct contribution made
by the
current results and the identified methodological shortcomings of the
research approach.
Am J Psychiatry 2009; 166:1156-1161;
August 17, 2009
Prevalence and Heritability of
Compulsive Hoarding: A Twins Study
Iervolino, Perroud, Fullana,
Guipponi,Cherkas, Collier, Mataix-Cols.
Genes, Brain, & Behavior. 7(7):778-785, October 2008
Boston Univ/Smith College Consortium Newsletter,
Hoarding Updates, 2007
"One recent analysis
from this study has been to learn more about the association
between hoarding and other disorders. Although many people consider hoarding to
be
a form of OCD, this classification is not certain.
Our analyses have shown that 17% of people who hoard
also have OCD. This is a high number; however, the fact that most people who
hoard show no signs
of OCD whatsoever raises questions about whether hoarding is really a subtype of
OCD.
We also found that 57% of people who hoard meet criteria for major depressive
disorder,
28% meet criteria for
generalized anxiety disorder, and 29% meet criteria for
social phobia.
When we examined differences between hoarding participants with and without
generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD), we found that people with hoarding + GAD demonstrated more
severe
hoarding symptoms, hoarding beliefs, and
symptoms of anxiety and depression than did
people with hoarding but no GAD. This research will continue for the next two
years.
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/PSYCH/rfrost/NEHC_Newsletter_April_2007.pdf
Behaviour Research and Therapy 45 (2007) 1657–1662
Cognitive aspects of nonclinical obsessive compulsive hoarding
by Luchian, McNally, and Hooley
See this article for information on a very small study delineating problems
of categorization, under inclusiveness, and indecisiveness in non clinical
hoarders.
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3197695/Hooley_CognitiveAspects.pdf?sequence=1
Behavior Research Therapy 2007 Nov;
45(11):2754-63. Epub 2007 Aug 8
HOARDING AND COMPULSIVE BUYING
Hoarding in a compulsive buying sample
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17868641?
ordinalpos=145&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
Behavior Research Therapy 2007 Apr;
45(4):673-86. Epub 2006 Jul 5.
Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive
disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
UCSD News
Center, 2006 Oct 24
SRI
Medication Found Effective in Treating Compulsive Hoarding Patients
by Debra Kain
SRI
medication effective in treating compulsive hoarding patients 2006
Sept 24
In a paper
published on-line in advance of publication in the Journal of Psychiatric
Research, Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., Director of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD)
Program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine,
reports the surprising finding that the serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI)
medication, paroxetine, is effective in treating patients with compulsive
hoarding syndrome.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoc--sme102406.php
Excellent Synopsis of related research articles
An
UPDATE ON HOARDING 2005
Sept 7
www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/hoarding/pubs/litreview.pdf -
Science
Daily-University of Iowa Research- 2005 Jan
Brain Region
Identified That Controls Collecting Behavior
By studying patients who developed abnormal hoarding behavior following brain
injury, neurology researchers in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A
Carver College of Medicine have identified an area in the prefrontal cortex that
appears to control collecting behavior.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219183729.htm
Clearinghouse on Abuse and
Neglect of the Elderly (CANE)
Selected
Annotated Bibliography:
Compulsive Hoarding - A Form of Self-Neglect
(1995-2005)
http://www.ncea.aoa.gov/NCEAroot/Main_Site/Library/CANE/CANE_Series/CANE_hoarding.aspx
Hoarders' Scans Reveal
Distinct Brain Signature
Recent positron emission tomography (PET) imaging
studies by scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles suggest
that the neurobiology of America's estimated 1 million compulsive hoarders
differs significantly from people with other
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms as well as healthy individuals.
The findings also suggest that hoarders might respond best to medications that
target particular brain systems. The study by Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., and
colleagues detected less brain activity in the anterior cingulate gyrus of
compulsive hoarders than in other OCD patients. This brain structure helps
govern decision-making, focused attention, motivation, and problem solving ?
cognitive functions that frequently are impaired in compulsive hoarders. The
study also found a correlation in all of the subjects with OCD between the
severity of hoarding symptoms and lower brain activity in the anterior cingulate
gyrus.
Saxena S, Brody AL, Maidment KM, Smith EC, Zohrabi N, Katz E,
Baker SK, Baxter LR Jr.
Cerebral glucose metabolism in
obsessive-compulsive
hoarding.
Am J Psychiatry. 2004 June;161(6):1038-48.
UCLA PET Study on the Neurobiology of Hoarding
UCLA PET Study finds Neurobiology of
Hoarders differs from other OCD patients 2004
June http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=5218
A List of Randy Frost, Steketee, Hartl
and others research related to Hoarding
Frost,
R., & Gross, R. (1993). The hoarding of possessions. Behaviour Research and
Therapy, 31, 367-382.
Frost,
R.O., Hartl, T.L., Christian, R., & Williams, R. (1995). The value of
possessions in compulsive hoarding: Patterns of use and attachment. Behaviour
and Research Therapy, 33, 897-902.
Frost,
R.O., & Hartl, T.L. (1996). A cognitive-behavioral model of compulsive hoarding.
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 341-350.
Frost,
R.O., Krause, M.S., & Steketee, G. (1996). Hoarding and obsessive-compulsive
symptoms. Behavior Modification, 20, 116-132.
Frost,
R.O., Kim, H., Morris, C., Bloss, C., Murray-Close, M. & Steketee, G. (1998).
Hoarding, compulsive buying, and reasons for saving. Behaviour Research and
Therapy, 36,657-664.
Frost, R. & Steketee,
G. (1998). Hoarding: Clinical aspects and treatment strategies. In M. Jenike, L.
Baer, & J. Minnichelo, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Practical Management (3rd
Ed.). Mosby Inc.,
St. Louis.
Frost,
R.O., Steketee, G., Youngreb, V.R., & Mallya, G.K. (1999). The threat of the
housing inspector: A case of hoarding. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 6, 270-278.
Hartl,
T.L. & Frost, R.O. (1999). An experimental case study of a cognitive-behavioral
treatment of compulsive hoarding: A single case multiple baseline design.
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37, 451-462.
Frost,
R.O. & Steketee, G. (in press). Issues in the treatment of compulsive hoarding.
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.
Frost,
R.O., Steketee, G., & Williams, L. (2000). Hoarding: A community health problem.
Health and Social Care in the Community, 8, 229-234.
Frost,
R.O., Steketee, G., Williams, L., & Warren, R. (2000).Mood, disability, and
personality disorder symptoms in hoarding, obsessive compulsive disorder, and
control subjects. Behavior Research and Therapy, 38, 1071-1082.
Steketee,
G., Frost, R.O., & Kim, H-J. (2001). Hoarding by elderly people. Health and
Social Work, 26, 176-184.
Steketee,
G., Frost, R.O., Wincze, Greene, K., & Douglass, H. (2000). Group and Individual
treatment of compulsive hoarding: A pilot study. Behavioural and Cognitive
Psychotherapy, 28, 259-268.
Frost,
R.O. & Hartl, T. (in press). Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding. In R.G. Menzies & P.
deSilva (Eds.) Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. John Wiley and Sons.
Frost,
R.O., Steketee, G., &Williams, L. (in press). Compulsive huying, compulsive
hoarding and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Behavior Therapy.
Frost, R.O.,
Steketee, G., & Greene, K. (in press). Cognitive and behavioral treatment of
compulsive hoarding. In M.H.Freeston & S. Taylor (Eds.) Cognitive Approaches to
Treating Obsessions and Compulsions: A Clinical Casebook. Erlbaum.
Hartl,
T.L., Savage, C.R., Frost, R.O., Allen, G.J. Deckersbach, T., Steketee, G., &
Duffany, S.R. (under editorial consideration). Actual and Perceived memory
deficits among individuals with hoarding symptoms.
Steketee,
G., Frost, R.O., & Kyrios, M. (under editorial consideration). Beliefs about
possessions among compulsive hoarders
Hoarding
of Animals Research Consortium.(under editorial consideration). Public health
implications of animal hoarding.
Coles,
M.E., Frost, R.O., Heimberg, R.G. & Steketee, G. (under editorial
consideration). Hoarding behaviors in a large college sample.
Email reprint requests
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rfrost@science.smith.edu
Or write to: Randy O. Frost, Ph.D.Smith
College
Psychology Department - Clark Science Center
Northampton, MA 01063
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