• 1 Introduction


• 2 What Is Hoarding?


• 3. Do I have a Problem with Hoarding?


• 4 Meet the Bad Guys


• 5 Meet the Good Guys: Strategies for Beating Hoarding


• 6 How Did This Happen?


• 7 Enhancing Motivation


• 8 Reducing Acquiring


• 9 Sorting/Discarding: Getting Ready


• 10 Sorting/Discarding: Let's Go!


• 11 Here Come the Bad Guys: Part 1. Motivation and Working Time


• 12 Here Come the Bad Guys: Part 2. Taking on Your Brain


• 13 Maintaining Your Success


• Index

Dr. David Tolin is Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. Randy O. Frost is Harold & Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology at Smith College.
Dr. Gail Steketee is Dean and Professor at Boston University School of Social Work.
Drs. Tolin, Frost, and Steketee are among the world's leading experts in the study and treatment of hoarding disorder. Together, they have held three grants to study hoarding from the National Institute of Mental Health and have led the field in our understanding of why hoarding behavior occurs, how hoarding is reflected in brain activity, and how best to treat people with hoarding. They have developed and tested a treatment for hoarding, currently considered the "gold standard" in the field, which forms the basis of this book.

This fully updated Second Edtion of Buried in Treasures outlines a scientifically based, effective program for helping those with hoarding disorder dig their way out of the clutter and chaos of their homes.