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(0)Rebecca R. Falkoff
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding-once a paradigm of economic rationality-came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity: the hoard. Possessed therefore considers the hoard as an aesthetic object produced by clashing perspectives about the meaning or value of objects. The 2000s...