Live Chat on Compulsive Hoarding -- Tuesday, February 26 at 4 P.M. EST
Scientific American recently published an article about compulsive hoarding , which is defined as the excessive accumulation of stuff and the refusal to discard it, resulting in problematic clutter. This May, the new edition of psychiatry's standard guidebook (the DSM-5) will recognize compulsive hoarding as an official disorder, separate from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Research in the last ten years has shown that hoarding and OCD are distinct, changed the way psychologists think about hoarding, refuted popular assumptions about people with excessive clutter and informed new, promising treatments. Today at 4pm EST, Randy Frost of Smith College – a leading expert on hoarding – and Lee Shuer, who is currently decluttering his home in Massachusetts , join us for a live web chat. [More]