My opinion is that the roles of unresolved loss in general and traumatic loss in particular need further inspection in connection with hoarding. The mismanagement of a single major loss or clustered losses along life’s way could represent a turning point that makes either object hoarding or animal hoarding go active. This is not to say that loss is omnipresent in all cases, but it is present in enough instances to merit further attention. A recent interview I conducted with Kathleen, a recovering hoarder, speaks to this point.
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Reader Viewpoint: To have and to hold
