Anthropology
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Yavar Moghimi

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• Review Article
  The Objects of Desire: A Cultural Case Study in Hoarding
  
  Author(s): Yavar MoghimiYavar Moghimi
  
  Hoarding is increasingly recognized by North American psychiatry and popular culture as a distinct disorder that warrants specialized treatment. These understandings are predominantly based on biological and cognitive behavioral conceptualizations that view hoarding as a part of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. In this article I conceptualize a psychotherapy case study of hoarding by drawing on the extensive sociocultural literature on “person-object” relations. Understanding hoarding through this lens appropriately contextualizes it as an extreme within a spectrum of relationships that people have with objects. This lens gave me a better understanding of my patient’s meaning and relationship with her objects, which allowed for more meaningful therapeutic interventions. I specifically examine the unique relationship hoarders may have with objects in regards to publ.. View More»
  

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