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Originally Posted by Topiarysurvivor
It is now a separate category in thr DSM now I believe. And I think It woukd be good to have a therapist who had some experience with this, if not someone who specializes. There is hoarding , and then behavior that has all the characteristics of hoarding, but different reasons for it beginning...
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There is experience and there is specialization. In my town with 200,000 people, a large university with a top clinical psych program, a social worker program and more than 100 therapists, there is no one who advertises on psych today as having a specialty in hoarding. So these folks are SOL ?
I just disagree that every disorder listed in the DSM V needs its own specialist. I think that therapy is less of a science and more of an art, and too much specialization isn't always a good thing, especially in a problem that has many potential sources and manifestations.