Dr. Randy O. Frost is the Israel Professor of Psychology at Smith College. He has published widely on hoarding and related phenomena. He has co-authored several books on hoarding including Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring: Therapist Guide; Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding, and Stuff: Compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in innovation, treatment, and research in the field of hoarding and cluttering by the Mental Health Association of San Francisco.