RECOGNIZING AND TREATING HOARDING DISORDER

Everybody has heard the statements "she's a pack rat" or "he's a hoarder," but how many of us really know what that means?

Pathological hoarding was first formally conceptualized as a syndrome separate from OCD in the early 1990s, yet it wasn't until 2013 that hoarding received formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria in the DSM. How can a mental health professional who sees clients in an office determine if hoarding is a factor in a client's life? Here, Carol Mathews provides readers with the first-ever comprehensive clinical book on hoarding, covering every aspect of the disorder. Carol Mathews, MD, is the Brooke Professor and the vice chair for strategic development in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida.