Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding
Length-41 minutes, 5 seconds
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. David Tolin, co-author of Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (with Drs. R. Frost and G. Steketee published by Oxford University Press.
David Tolin, Ph.D.
Dr. Tolin is the founder and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at The Institute of Living. He is also Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Tolin received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, and completed a predoctoral internship at Tufts University School of Medicine/VA Medical Center, Boston.
Dr. Tolin’s research and clinical interests include cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders in adults and children, and cognitive processes that underlie anxiety disorders, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and panic disorder. He is the recipient of the award for Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Psychology from the Connecticut Psychological Association, and an Early Career Award from the Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He is a Fellow of the Council for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health.
Dr. Tolin is the author of over 90 journal articles and book chapters, and over 140 research presentations to national and international organizations. He is co-author of Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (with Drs. R. Frost and G. Steketee) and Trichotillomania: Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Hair Pulling and Related Problems (with Dr. M. Franklin).
Dr. Tolin is principal investigator on the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded studies “Stepped Care for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder” and “Neural Mechanisms of Compulsive Hoarding,” and co-investigator on the NIMH-funded studies “Psychopathology of Compulsive Hoarding” (principal investigator: R. Frost), “Treatment of Compulsive Hoarding” (principal investigator: G. Steketee), and “Screening for GAD among Frail Elderly” (principal investigator: G. Diefenbach). He has served as principal investigator on several industry-sponsored clinical trials of experimental medications. Visit his website.
Just finished listening to an audio interview with you and thought you might like to hear my story.
My daughter for one reason or another had a house so full of things you couldn't get to the couch hardly.
She lives in Seattle and we live in the
SF Bay Area. Additionally, she is homeschooling her children and I found out that my grandaughter could not read when she was 9 years old.
I am a former teacher and she has never been trained as a teacher. I asked her if we could come up and decorate her daughter's bedroom. It took a full week to remove old wallpaper, paint, purchase furniture, linens and to organize. Afterward I asked if I could try to teach her daughter to read.
I got duplicate books and had a lesson with her about 3 xs a week and after 2 years she could read on a third grade level.
The year after we did our granddaughter's bedroom we went up to do their son's bedroom.
Then the next year, which was about a year and a half after starting the reading program I asked if I could teach her daughter to cook. Then I asked if I could organize her kitchen
We came up and spent a week in the kitchen organizing, purchasing dishes and pots and pans etc.
Then I asked the daddy what the mountains of white things were in their bedroom and he said it wasn't my business and i said it looked like a fire hazard.
That summer my daughter and her two children came to CA for a horse camp and while they were gone, their daddy cleaned up the master bedroom.
The next time we came to visit the living room and the dining room wrere all cleaned up and their daughter and I cooked my daughter a wonderful birthday dinner and we all spent the next day at the Seattle Zoo.
The next time we came the house was in very good order and they had organized the garage and were starting on the downstairs.
We haven't been back for a while due to other demanding obligations but their daughter just got an A+ on a paper that she wrote for her class.
Their daddy has never been very friendly to us and now suddenly we are his best freinds. Our daughter and her children are very friendly and loving toward us as well.
Surprise Surprise.
It has been a long 3 years but worth it. A doting Bay Area grandmother
Posted by: Jean Sweeney | February 03, 2007 at 09:35 PM
The theme with the mood swings and personal disorders is widely discussed and this interview gives many answers.
Posted by: Cara Fletcher | March 17, 2007 at 08:03 AM
Anxiety disorder is a big problem and with the help of experts like Dr. David Tolin, disorder can be cured.
Posted by: Anxiety Disorder | April 16, 2008 at 01:27 AM