People Who Have: Hoarding disorder, ecopsychology, and poetry by prescription
Rebecca J. Fiala
Citation: Fiala, R. J. (2024). People Who Have: Hoarding disorder, ecopsychology, and poetry by prescription. Journal of Ecopsychology, 4, 9, 1-5. https://joe.nationalwellbeingservice.
com/volumes/volume-4-2024/volume-4-article-9
Processing dates: Submitted: 16th July 2024; Re-submitted: 5th November 2024; Accepted: 15th November 2024; Published: 20th December 2024
Abstract
Although poetry is well suited to the task of improving insight and empathy and is commonly used for this purpose educational settings, it is underutilized clinically—perhaps most notably in the context of hoarding disorder, where patients may self-report finding personal motivation in aesthetics, creative problem-solving, and/or environmentalism. This poem is an introduction to the work of ecopsychology for patients who have hoarding disorder, providing an ecofriendly, low-cost, and accessible tool for use in language-based therapeutic intervention with practitioners who wish to offer personalized, arts-enriched care.
Keywords: attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), hoarding, impulse control disorder (ICD), object-attachment disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), pathological hoarding
Biography
Rebecca J. Fiala, MA is Associate Director of Publications, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine, 808 S Wood St, 972-M CMET, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Phone: (312) 996-5606
Email: rjfiala@uic.edu
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