Where can I get from writing about the psychology of Collecting? I have no degree in any of the behavioral sciences. (Took the psychological foundations of education to get my teaching certificate a few years ago. Got 'A', but honestly, I thought it was all a bit silly.) Answer is simple. I've made a hobby of people watching hobby. conversation with them, or rather, listening to them talk about the subject they love. (I must say that there are worse ways of learning about something. interesting discourse and silly speech are often separated by little more than discourser and his or her interest in the subject .)
Data can be thought of as a subset of a larger human behavior called-if only as a convenience -.. Hobby, but I'm not sure this is true, I would argue that collectors and hobbyists are completely different things. Take a model train people as evidence. I used to have my Housing train shows when they came to Northern California. wonderful people, model trains, "hobbyists", but they come in two different flavors. there are those who build tracks and small cities and mountains, etc. and then play with their trains. Then there are collectors who are otherwise forced into their own pattern of each locomotive Lionel in a given year. or all of the Lionel locomotive ever made. or all of the locomotives, cars, tankers, cabooses, so a certain scale / year / manufacturer. Often we do not even open the package, reducing the value, I said. builders and collectors go to the same show i-guess-talk with each other, but they are completely different species.
pathological collectors:
There are some poor souls who are pathological in the collection. Is not my word, 'pathological'. The study of people use this word to describe the collection to the point that it interferes with daily life. Their houses have been met, and I think literally every square meter floor to ceiling filled-do-it-accidents-the-floor-full of stuff down. These people usually have no interest in things in his collection, but the pitch fit if someone tires to take any of it away. There is some research showing how it could be discussed. Steven W. Anderson, a neurologist, and colleagues at the University of Iowa studied 63 people with brain damage from stroke, surgery, or encephalitis, who had no previous problems with hoarding before the illness, but after that, he began filling their homes with such things as old newspapers, broken appliances and boxes of junk. the good doctor says:
These compulsive collectors all suffered damage to the prefrontal cortex, a brain region involved in decision making, information processing and behavior organizacije.Ljudi whose collecting behavior remained normal had brain damage, but was instead distributed throughout the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Anderson argues that the need for the collection stems from the need to store supplies such as food - a basic disk and originates in the subcortical limbic area of the brain. People need to prefrontal cortex, he said, in order to determine what "tools" are worth hoarding.
I need to make one last point before moving on just a nutty-non-pathological-collector. All the reading I have done suggests that the collection of all-you-why and what-all measure - it is understood and there really is not all that much research out there clearly brings me back to my starting point-I get to pretend to be an expert on the psychology of collecting because t'aint no one else out there. was better qualified than I.
NUT-CASE (not clinical) output:
A little less 'traumatic' / 'dramatically' - and it's pretty clear that I'm on thin ice-psycho-blather here - just as obsessive compulsive disorder, the collector can not detect brain damage. - Just good old OCD - or we could call it OCCD (obsessive compulsive disorder collection) But I wonder how many people who are truly dedicated to a particular topic, (coin collecting, Denver Broncos, UFOs, conspiracy theories. you name it) have family and friends who look at them, shake head and mutter something about OCD under the breath. But before we get to the collector-collectors with a capital C, coins, stamps, model railroad car collectors, etc., we could consider the collector in all of us a wonderful story written by Judith Katz-Schwartz -.. Remembering Grandma her grandmother was a refugee, as a very young girl-from Tsarist Russia, who collected .... and I quote ...
I thought it was a little funny, but a man with whom I share timber store reminded me of two large bags full of garbage I have carefully cleaned BBQ sauce bottles. I love BBQ sauce and eat almost everything. a bottle a week. I do not know what will ever come of them, but I know that the day will come when I'm dang glad I have all these empty BBQ sauce bottle.
Judith summarizes it nicely and with a severe and rare insight, I think. In this article, it closes with ....
Some people collect for investment. Some collect for pleasure. Some people do it to learn about history. And some people are "saved items" because it helps them to fill the gaping hole, calm fears, erase uncertainty. For them, the collection provides a line in his life and a bulwark against chaos and terror of an uncertain world. It serves as a protectant against the destruction of all that ever loved. Grandma's things made her feel safe. While the outside world is dangerous and is always changing, it still can not sit safely in his apartment at night, "putting together my things ".
Then, an episode from the TV sit-com Third Rock From the Sun may remember that Dick -. (John Lithgow) has become obsessed with the Fuzzy Friends, I "Fuzzy Friends" biti.proizvođača way to avoid being sued is the people who make up if they needed to be perfectly honest about things, I guess most of the "Beanie Babies." - If not all of us - saw himself in a little character.
There is a pretty unique kind of nut case collection, which is practiced by the dictators such as accumulated bric-a-brac. Possible motives for collecting abound: compulsion, competition, exhibitionism, the desire for immortality and the need for experts'. Approval According to Peter York, a British journalist who studied dictators' decor for your style books dictator, recognizes all of the above in his subjects. It is basically a dictator business, he says, that all over-the-top. For example. ..
Saddam Hussein
sci-fi fantasy pictures with menacing dragons and barely clad blonde.
Adolf Hitler
Bavarian 18th century furniture. Munich antique dealers ordered to be around for him.
Kim Jong II
20,000 videos (Daffy Duck cartoons, Star Wars, Liz Taylor and Sean Connery shift)
Idi Amin
Several racing cars and piles of old film reels I Love Lucy reruns and Tom and Jerry cartoons
Joseph Stalin
Westerns with Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Wayne. Stalin also inherited Joseph Goebbels films.
He also points out that: "Some of these people," he says, "were really very short ."
COLLECTORS VICTIMS:
I do not know what else to call this set. There are several companies that sell things so well and so frightening insight into their customers, and with such a deliberate marketing plans tailored to iskoristitisiromašnih collector's peccadilloes, that these collectors are the victims of one-self - or the middle of the old marketing company, I do not know that
.in a case in point is the Hallmark Cards and Christmas keepsake ornaments. Note particularly the word "memories" and compare it with the idea of "nostalgia". (Whether the research is the collection of Dr. crowd seems to hang on the word "nostalgia.") It is reasonable to collect things that speak of the past. It is no more nor less than any other historical museums do not. it is also reasonable to collect things that move, let us hope happy memories from her past. (People my age remember the chutes and ladders, and Candy Land game. This is the kind of thing Daniel Arnett writes in his article on why we collect, published elsewhere on this site.), But these things are authentic.
Hallmark has earned millions, and I have nothing against making money selling fake nostalgia and let us not mince words here are for women. If you've been articles I read, it also seems clear that these women are women with careers, education, children to raise, and we still do not grind the words here and many others do.
And what will the length of Hallmark is going to get these poor women to buy the next ornament or a series of 5 or 10 ornaments? Seminars, conferences, newsletters, autograph opportunities (artist), and pre-show. (Advance for displaying plastic decorations stamped in the millions? Yep !)
Not only was Hallmark. Consider Franklin Mint, Hummel figurines, ceramics little English cottage, commemorative plaques with Elvis painted on it. Not for nothing are these things 'nostalgic'. When ever a kid's film comes from either McDonald's or Burger King has a little plastic toys / figurines / antenna balls of each character. Then the children of a certain age should be fed Happy Meals while the entire collection. (For the Children "nostalgia" extends all the way back to the movie they had seen a week ago .)
CASE COLLECTORS:
My sister tells me the fourth and final category of collectors. This species can be seen as a victim, as well, but I chose to call them by accident. writes ...
someone mentions one that they like X, and then years later, all my friends they are the X and then they really start to hate X. Loren and Bonnie [my niece] had a teacher that everyone in the whole school knew loved giraffes and collect them. I talked to her one day and it was all started years ago when explaining the project, the children had to do to tell you about myself. She uses herself as an example and said out of the blue that she would like a giraffe. Now this poor woman is given all possible giraffe thing ever made. She told me that she does not like animals condemned.
psychology of these poor souls is easy to understand. They are "co-dependent '(' accidental enablers'?) Made from mild OCD mass. They know they mean well, but they were too kind to say anything to get away if it. What will you do?
or Judith has a wealth of excellent advice to offer collectors. And some very nice things in their sales. Check out her site Twin Brooks and his book The Secret Diva Collection. If my book before I wrote some of my articles would save me a lot of time researching and compiling things.
