BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hoarding Behavior Articles and Books
Compiled by Henriette Kellum, LCSW
Updated April 20, 2009
Articles
 Abramowitz, Jonathan S., Wheaton, Michael G., Storch, Eric A. (2008). The











Status of Hoarding as a Symptom of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Behavior Research and Therapy 46, 1026-1033
Erkshire, Helen Worden. Out of This World. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
1953. (Book contains a chapter on the Colyer Brothers Case)
Franks, Michele MS; Dale Lund, PhD; Donna Poulton, PhD; and Michael
Caserta, PhD. “Understanding Hoarding Behavior Among Older Adults: A
case study approach. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, Vol (3/4), 2004,
p. 77-107.
Fontenelle, Leonardo F., Mendlowicz Mauro V., Soares, Isabella D., Versiani,
Marcio. (2004). Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding Symptoms: a
Distinctive Clinical Subtype? Comprehensive Psychiatry, 45:5, 375-383.
Frost, Randy, and the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium, "People
who Hoard Animals," Psychiatric Times, Vol. 17(4), April 2000.
Hartl, Tamara,PhD; Randy Frost, PhD; George Allen,PhD; Thilo
Deckersbach,PhD; Gail Steketee, PhD; Shannon Duffany, PhD and Cary
Savage PhD. “Actual and Perceived Memory Deficits in Individuals with
Compulsive Hoarding”, Wiley-Liss, Inc. June, 2004.
Hwang,Jen M.D.,Tsai, Shih Jen M.D., Yang, Chen Hong M.D., Liu, King Ming
M.D., and Lirng, Jiing-Feng M.D. (1998). Hoarding Behavior in Dementia, a
preliminary report. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Fall 1998.
Kaplan, Alicia, MD, and Eric Hollander, MD. “Comorbidity in compulsive
hoarding: A Case Report”, CNS Spectrums,January 2004, Vol 9 number 1, p.
71-73.
Neziroglu, PhD; Jerome Bubrick,PhD and Jose Yaryura-Tobias,M.D.
Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding, New Harbinger publications, 2004.
Patronek, Gary J. and the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium. "The
Problem of Animal Hoarding," Municipal Lawyer, May/June 2001 p.6-9.
Pertusa, Alberto M.D., Fullana, Miguel A. Ph.D., Singh, Satwant, M.Sc.,
Alonso, Pino, M.D., Menchon, Jose M., M.D., Ph.D., Mataix-Cols, David,
Ph.D. (2008). Compulsive Hoarding: OCD Symptom, Distinct Clinical
Syndrome or Both? American Journal of Psychiatry, AIA, 1-10.
Samuels, Jack; Shugart, Yin Yao; Grados, Marco A; Willour, Virginia L.;
Significant Linkage to Compulsive Hoarding on Chromosome 14 in families
1
with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. (2007). American Journal of Psychiatry,
164, 493-499
 Saxena, Sanjaya, M.D.; Karron M. Maidment, R.N.: Tanya Vapnik, Ph.D.;






Gina Golden, Ph.D.; Tanya Rishwain, M.S.W.; Richard M. Rosen, M.D.;
Gerald Tarlow, Ph.D.; and Alexander Bystritsky, M.D. "ObsessiveCompulsive Hoarding: Symptom Severity and Response to Multimodal
Treatment", Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2002, 63:21-27.
Saxena, Sanjaya; Arthur Brody; Karron Maidment; Erly Smith Et al, “Cerebral
Glucose Metabolism in Obessive Compulsive Hoarding”, American Journal of
Psychiatry June 2004, 161 p. 1038-1048.
Saxena, Sanjaya and Karron M. Maidment, “Treatment of Compulsive
Hoarding”, Wiley Periodicals Inc. 2004, p. 1143-1154
Saxena, Sanjaya M.D., (2007). Is Compulsive Hoarding a Genetically and
Neurobiologically discrete syndrome? Implications for Diagnostic
Classification. American Journal of Psychiatry 164:3, 380-384.
Saxena, Sanjaya M.D., (2008). Neurobiology and Treatment of Compulsive
Hoarding. CNS Spectrum 13:9, 29-36.
Soniat, Barbara and Micklos, Monica. (1998). Working with Elderly Clients
Who are At-Risk and Resistant to Accepting Help: A Capacity-Risk Model.
Unpublished but available from the authors, Department of Health Care
sciences, Division of Aging Studies and Services, George Washington
University in Washington, D.C. Presented at the Southern Gerontological
Society Annual Meeting, Richmond, Virginia, April 1993.
Steketee, G., Frost, R.O, & Kim, H-J. Hoarding by elderly people. Health and
Social Work, 2001, 26,176-184.
Books
 Erkshire, Helen Worden. Out of This World. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
1953. (Book contains a chapter on the Colyer Brothers Case)
 Kolberg, Judith. What every professional Organizer Needs to Know about
Hoarding. Georgia: Squall Press. 2008
 Steketee, Gail and Randy O. Frost. Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring
therapist guide. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. 2007.
 Steketee, Gail and Randy O. Frost. Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring
workbook. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. 2007.
 Tolin, David F., Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. Buried in Treasures.
New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. 2007.
2