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Lost found kept : a memoir / by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann.
Van Pelt Library RC569.5.H63 D47 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection RC569.5.H63 D47 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Derrickson Kossmann, Deborah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Derrickson Kossmann, Deborah--Family.
- Derrickson Kossmann, Deborah.
- Hoarders--United States--Biography.
- Hoarders.
- Compulsive hoarding.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Psychologists--Biography.
- Psychologists.
- Hoarding Disorder.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hoarding Disorder.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages : illustrations (black & white); 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Trio House Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- The author, a psychologist, shares her family's story, as she confronts the reality that her mother had transformed her childhood home into a hoarding situation as well as addressing the author's own past and their shared, long-buried family secrets.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Part I. Lost
- Chapter 1. A path around
- Chapter 2. Charm bracelet
- Chapter 3. Drawdown warning
- Chapter 4. What we hold on to
- Chapter 5. Going in
- Chapter 6. Bullies I love
- Part II. Found
- Chapter 7. Building Myself
- Chapter 8. Shit show
- Chapter 9. The garden
- Chapter 10. When you see fit
- Chapter 11. Thirty-yard dumpster
- Part III. Kept
- Chapter 12. Family secrets
- Chapter 13. Barren
- Chapter 14. What remains
- Chapter 15. At the center
- Chapter 16. A house is not a home
- Epilogue. The star-filled dark.
- ISBN:
- 9781949487336
- 1949487334
- OCLC:
- 1499259634
- Publisher Number:
- 90101417992
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