Quando le cose prendono il sopravvento: la collezione tra disturbo e cura

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  • Maria Valentina Pagano Ricercatrice indipendente

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13129/2035-858X/QdI.2024.65-73

Abstract

About the topic “drifts in collecting” it seems to be interesting to ask a question about the possibility to identify a specific temporal reference in whole life in which desire of collect is gradually being developed. And, at the same time, hardships and sufferings by having need to get rid of something collected, but without any sense or value. And the question is: who decides about sense and value that things have in our life? How can it be a fact?! By age 10, preadolescence began, and children tend to start collecting to assert themselves for the first time. How and how much parents modeling, gender differences, age-specific entertainment content, can affect a future obsessive compulsive disorder or syndrome like hoarding? With target oriented interviews it seems possible to draw a way of investigation that can leads to some interesting data to cover to go in for a closer look.

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2026-06-24

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