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Diogenes syndrome: patients living with hoarding and squalor
Author(s) -
Browne Debbie,
Hegde Rekha
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.396
Subject(s) - hoarding (animal behavior) , hoarding disorder , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , compulsive behavior , feeding behavior
With a growing awareness that hoarding can be found in many psychiatric conditions, clinicians may recognise an increase in referrals for people presenting with hoarding. Here, the authors present three cases of hoarding behaviour stemming from different psychiatric conditions and discuss how hoarding can be managed.