Randy Frost has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and teaches Abnormal Psychology at Smith College. His research interests have to do with anxiety disorders generally and obsessive compulsive disorders specifically. Randy has a series of ongoing studies of perfectionism and its relation to problems in living and on hoarding behavior, a variant of obsessive compulsive disorder. In 2006, he completed two books on compulsive hoarding: A therapist manual titled Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring: Therapist Guide and Workbook, and self-help book Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding.