From 2014: Joan Acocella on the history of hoarding, from Grey Gardens to the DSM-V.
What does all this have to do with hoarding? True, the ladies didn’t throw away those cat-food cans, but it’s hard to say what the real drama is here, because the evidence is a piece of art, a movie, which, even if it wasn’t scripted, was nevertheless controlled by what the Beales soon realized were the filmmakers’ expectations. Those included not just clutter but also upper-class insouciance and some rather complicated family psychology, of the Tennessee Williams sort.
For such a notion to be accepted, other professionals had to climb on board. They did. Indeed, as Herring tells us, some were already there. In the nineteen-eighties, Sandra Felton, a popular-psychology writer, mounted an anti-clutter campaign based on a combination of Evangelical Christianity , self-help psychology, and addiction narratives. In 1980, Felton founded a movement called Messies Anonymous, inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous.
Now the program shows us the hoarder’s house and, on the stoop, the counsellor who has been sent over, plus a cleanup crew, usually two men with a truck. The counsellor rings the bell; the poor, nervous, guilty person answers. The camera takes us into the house, and what we see beggars description. Because it’s television, you can’t smell it, but the fact that the counsellor and the cleanup crew wear masks means something. In some rooms, the debris is knee-deep.
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