Randy O. Frost, PhD, professor of psychology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and several books about hoarding, including Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving and Hoarding (Oxford University) and, most recently, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Most of us have heard of people who suffer from hoarding. They excessively accumulate stuff until piles of it eventually…
