People Who Have: Hoarding disorder, ecopsychology, and poetry by prescription

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.