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Compulsive hoarding: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Stephen Kellett Rebecca Greenhalgh Nigel Beail Nicola Ridgway

Behav Cogn Psychother

Centre for Psychological Services Research, University of Sheffield, UK.

Published: March 2010

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  • The project studied the experiences of 11 compulsive hoarders to understand their behaviors better through semi-structured interviews.
  • The analysis revealed four main themes related to childhood influences, emotional attachments to items, avoidance of discarding possessions, and the negative effects of hoarding on personal and social environments.
  • The findings contribute to existing research on hoarding, but also highlight some limitations in the study's methodology.

Article Abstract

Background: This project aimed to explore the experiences of people who compulsively hoard and how they make sense of their own hoarding behaviours.

Method: A total of 11 compulsive hoarders were recruited and interviewed using a simple semi-structured interview format, designed for the purposes of the study. The resulting transcribed interviews were analyzed using interpretive-phenomenological analysis.

Results: Four super-ordinate discrete, but interacting, themes were found: (1) childhood factors; (2) the participants' relationship to their hoarded items; (3) cognitive and behavioural avoidance of discard; and (4) the impact of hoarding on self, others and the home environment. The themes as a whole described people entrapped in massively cluttered physical environments of their own making. Efforts at discard appeared consistently sabotaged by cognitive/behavioural avoidance, thereby creating maintaining factors of associated personal distress and environmental decline.

Conclusions: The results are discussed in the context of the extant evidence concerning hoarding, the distinct contribution made by the current results and the identified methodological shortcomings of the research approach.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465809990622DOI Listing

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