Sex Addicts Fight Obsessions

February 11, 2011 by Dr Mark Agresti Drug & Alcohol Addiction Treatment, Mental Health Treatment, Mental illness, Sex Addiction 0 comments

Dr. Agresti was interviewed by WPBF Local ABC Channel 25 in South Florida. News Channel 25 asked Dr. Agresti, as a psychiatry expert, his professional opinion on the sex addicts topic.

“According to Dr. Mark Agresti, a psychiatrist at Columbia Hospital, ‘the difference with a sex addict is that it’s not an expression of intimacy, but an obsession about the act. The obsession about the act consumes the person. They spend an inordinate amount of time during the day thinking about sex, when they’re going to have sex, how they’re going to have sex.'”

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