Reality, Not Reality TV: Smith College Prof Studies Hoarders

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If you’ve ever watched popular television shows such as A&E's Hoarders, the Learning Channel's Hoarding: Buried Alive, or Animal Planet's Confessions: Animal Hoarding, you may know something about this compulsive disorder that affects millions of Americans and is marked by the collection of mass quantities of objects, animals, and garbage...</p>

<p>At Smith College... psychology professor Randy Frost and alumna Rachel Gross published the first systematic study of hoarding in the journal Behaviour Research and Therapy

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<p>Smith</a> College professor explores the cluttered lives of habitual hoarders | School Spotlight</p>

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<p>I work in Randy’s lab right now! He’s incredible.</p>

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<p>Ha! Small world … Randy is a friend of mine. As you can imagine, he has some interesting stories to tell at dinner parties (although some are best heard after the meal is over). :eek: </p>

<p>He also has a (fairly) new book out, Stuff. See <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/books/review/Kramer-t.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/books/review/Kramer-t.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I am a psychologist and I use “Buried Treasures” one of Dr. Frost’s books (along with Dr. Tolin and Dr. Steketee) in my work with patients. It is great to hear that students at Smith are getting such a positive impression of what psychologists do and see growing opportunities for the future.</p>

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<p>I’m going to print this out and save it. I do it with all the good Smith articles. You never know when the Internets might go down.</p>

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<p>TheDad–Do you know something that the rest of us don’t? ;)</p>

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Probably, but I don’t know what.</p>

<p>But I just keep lotsa stuff just in case.</p>

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<p>TD, you crack me up!</p>

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<p>I’m sorry but hoarding is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen a person do. only an American can come up with something like this…</p>