Abstract:

Abstract: Commonly hoarding behaviour occur with serious level of distress or a disorder. DSM-5 characterizes hoarding disorder as an adversity is to need to keep/save stuff by cause of distress identify with discarding stuff. Hoarding behaviour usually confused with collecting and/or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Until recent years hoarding disorder seems as a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Individuals with hoarding behaviour had a history of losses and object related experiences in early childhood. In this review it aimed to study a psychoanalytical perspective of hoarding behaviour. It specified with psychoanalytic perspective because it is expected that the underlying reason or causes of hoarding behaviour are made with the unconscious. The person may try to (solve) fill the gap between their problems and traumas with collecting and keeping lots of things. In what findings does the hoarding behaviour from past to present reach within the psychoanalytic framework?

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