Rebecca R. Falkoff is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. Follow her on Twitter @rebeccarfalkoff and @ifiwereahoarder.

"Exhaustively researched and brimming with new ideas, Possessed offers a richly detailed account of the last two centuries of hoarding and hoarding-adjacent practices in Western culture."

- Raymond Malewitz, Oregon State University, author of The Practice of Misuse

"In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff succeeds in capturing the many nuances of hoarding behavior by probing history, psychology, markets, the role of waste, opportunity, and much more. This stimulating read is for anyone with interest in and experience of this challenging problem."

- Gail Steketee, Boston University, author of Treatment for Hoarding Disorder

"I found it thrilling to discover the many inspiring passageways Rebecca R. Falkoff has found into the topic of hoarding: philosophical, critical, historical, and personal. She shows how the literary and artistic imagination bring vision, not diagnosis, to a phenomenon usually relegated to pathology. "

- William Davies King, UC Santa Barbara, author of Collections of Nothing

"In academic yet accessible prose, Rebecca R. Falkoff adds a powerful voice and poignancy to the topic of hoarding?all while helping us see the relationship between current day hoarders and key figures of modernity."

- Jessie Sholl, author of Dirty Secret

"Possessed brilliantly traces the cultural history of hoarding. The book marks a highly rewarding intellectual journey for both author and reader as six delightfully packed units unravel the deeper anthropological mechanisms that make hoarding the ultimate stuff of modernity. Soul-searching in tone and method, and a very personable (as well as personal) account of what has been classed as a pathology, Possessed is at once rigorous and adventurous, overloaded and light-footed, informative and challenging."

- Federica Pedriali, University of Edinburgh