{"id":28024,"date":"2016-05-12T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=28024"},"modified":"2016-05-09T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T19:42:25","slug":"andy-warhol-was-a-hoarder-by-claudia-kalb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/andy-warhol-was-a-hoarder-by-claudia-kalb\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder by Claudia Kalb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Andy<\/a>When I first heard the title of the\u00a0book Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder : Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>I was intrigued. I wish I could say it drew me in because I am a cultured art lover. But, no. It was\u00a0more due to the fact that\u00a0I have -on multiple occasions-\u00a0looked around my house and asked, “Is this\u00a0hoarding?”<\/p>\n

It was the perfect book for me at the perfect time. Not only did each self-contained chapter work nicely with my\u00a0catch-as-catch-can\u00a0reading schedule, but it also\u00a0 more than satisfactorily answered\u00a0this question that had been nagging at me recently.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0this\u00a0book, author Claudia Kalb\u00a0examines some of the most interesting personalities throughout history with an angle toward how their unique foibles might be regarded today. For example,\u00a0according to the prevailing cultural thought on mental and emotional development Albert Einstein would\u00a0be what we call\u00a0“on the autism spectrum.”<\/p>\n

If\u00a0the musical genius George Gershwin were growing up today, he likely would have been diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Ritalin. I can’t help but ask: if that happened, would\u00a0he still have written a composition as wonderful as Rhapsody in Blue<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Charles Darwin was so wracked with anxiety that I think if he could have known the impact his\u00a0work\u00a0would have on science and religion today, he might have\u00a0reconsidered publishing it. Today’s 24 hour news pundits would have terrified him.<\/p>\n

Not so\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright. The famous architect had such grand ideas about himself and his work that he was said to be out of touch with reality and\u00a0often flouted\u00a0laws of physics (a rather important\u00a0thing for an architect to consider!)\u00a0Kalb qualifies him as a candidate for Narcissistic Personality Disorder if there ever was one.<\/p>\n

Abraham Lincoln suffered from bouts of depression.\u00a0If he had access to\u00a0the same kind of\u00a0antidepressants that we have today, would he have taken them and if so, would he have been remembered as the same great president?<\/p>\n

Marilyn Monroe. Princess Diana. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Christine Jorgensen. Howard Hughes. Betty Ford. All famous and influential in their own time,\u00a0their own ways and probably lived with conditions defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual<\/a><\/em>. Commonly referred to as the\u00a0DSM, it is\u00a0the go-to\u00a0reference book used by mental health professionals in identifying and diagnosing mental disorders.\u00a0First published in 1952, it did\u00a0not even exist when many of these personalities arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n

If you would like to read more about these fascinating people and their interesting ways, check out The book\u00a0Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder : Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>by Claudia Kalb.<\/p>\n

Oh, and in case you are wondering: I decided that I am not a hoarder. I\u00a0just happen to be in the season of life where I\u00a0share a household with some\u00a0enthusiastic young collectors of “treasures.” I suppose I will have to find another excuse if the house is still a disaster when the kids move out!<\/p>\n

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