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...best-selling book, Out of the Shadows. Said Carnes: "What we're talking about is a loss of control and willingness to risk any kind of consequence for a pleasure that gets you so hooked you cannot stop." But other experts dismissed that argument. Contended University of Minnesota psychologist Eli Coleman, who believes compulsive sexual behaviors are types of anxiety-based disorders: "It's not an addiction. There's no substance involved. You can use it as a metaphor, but it's oversimplifying a complex phenomenon, and that could be dangerous...
Others argue that solid evidence is accumulating in support of the addiction hypothesis. Psychologist Harvey Milkman and chemist Stanley Sunderwirth, authors of the book Craving for Ecstasy: The Consciousness and Chemistry of Escape, point out that sexual arousal triggers an increase in the release of certain neurotransmitters in the brain in much the same way that the taking of mood-altering drugs does. It is possible that sex addicts try to get the high that results from those chemicals...
...face of more than 25 years of civil rights gains. But supporters argue that such concerns are less important than the urgent need to rescue African-American males from a future of despair and self-destruction. "The boys need more attention," says Spencer Holland, a Washington educational psychologist and champion of the black-male classroom concept. "The girls are not killing each other...
...schools, for example, showed that black males accounted for 80% of the expulsions, 65% of the suspensions and 58% of the nonpromotions, even though they made up just 43% of the students. "Black boys are viewed by their teachers as hyperactive and aggressive," says Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley. "Very early on, they get labeled...
...America tuning in? One reason may be the refreshing dose of real- world grit these shows provide. "With Ozzie and Harriet, everyone felt guilty," says Barbara Cadow, a psychologist at U.S.C. School of Medicine. "With these new programs, we see that we're doing all right by comparison." Alvin Poussaint, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an adviser to The Cosby Show, suggests that these shows, with their exaggerated nastiness, are an "outlet for people who feel, yeah, they really would like to knock the kid in the head, but they know it's wrong...