Janice Strubbe WittenbergBesprekingen

A very enjoyabke book. I did not think i wouls like it but I did! Very well written book about Faith and healing and believing.

This book had a very unique perspective that I enjoyed. It wasn't the type of book I would normally enjoy but I did. A very quick and enlightening read.

This is a good introduction to hoarding behavior. While it is not a self-help book, there is useful information for sufferers and their relatives.

I won this in a LibraryThing member giveaway. This book reads more like a published dissertation: well written with loads of research. Lots of info inside!

This book delves into the mystical world of charismatic healers and follows the story of one man's life, his desperately dysfunctional upbringing scars him deeply. His alleged miraculous gifts of seeing energy auras which he can adjust to promote physical healing from injury and/or disease is thoroughly explored as is the psyche of his most devoted disciple. Much of the dialog seems a bit choppy and abrupt; and the heavy use of presenting events via flashback can be a bit disconcerting. Overall some interesting insights into the human condition, the fallibility of powerfully influential individuals and the dangers of believing too deeply and losing touch with rationality.½

Hoarding, Collecting, Pack-rats - These very human anomalies are exposed and explained in this entertaining, yet scholarly narrative by William Strubbe and Janice Strubbe Wittenberg. The authors take the reader into a world where having more stuff is the focal point of a persons life, ambitions, and desires - A world of troubled souls - seeking solace in the never-achievable goal of having it all. Showcasing extreme cases, we are shown how apparently normal persons of high intellect, and social norms spiral downward into an abyss of their making. We are shown some of the causes postulated as the root of this malady, brain dysfunction in specific areas, biochemical imbalances, behavioral reinforcement, among others. The authors also show how recovery is possible, yet often ephemeral in nature and also show us how sometimes the hoarder pays an ultimate price for entombing themselves in their own "stuff". This book is an easy read, well written, and almost conversational. It flows so well that I could not put it down while I flipped to the next chapter seeking the next narrative. As a final note - you may (as I did) examine the inner you - "Am I a candidate for this malady?". I can't answer that now - I'm packing up a box of old stuff I saved - to donate to my local charity.