Talk:Sex and love addiction

Expert review
I've tagged this new article for expert review because while it has references and seems like it might be an entirely legitimate subject, the fact that a specific organization, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, is mentioned prominently in the text, used as a source, and included in the external links, makes me wonder if the article is trying to promote the group. It would be good if someone with expertise in the area and clearly not affiliated with this group could validate the content as a neutral discussion and not just a promotion of organizational views. --RL0919 (talk) 03:31, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the above comment, however the initial paragraphs characterizing the category of addictive behaviors is fairly consistent with clinical data and cognitive theory. I have a Ph. D. in Cognitive Sciences and considerable clinical experience with types that would describe themselves as either codependents or sex addicts. My colleagues and I have developed statistical models of the overlap between these two addictive signatures hoping to identify a single cognitive source and possibly a genetic component that predisposes this cognitive source. We have found that a patient with hypersexual disorder is over three times as likely to exhibit a dependency disorder, and a patient with a dependency disorder is four times as likely to exhibit either a hypersexual or hyposexual disorder. Some references have been added to mitigate the offending tie between this concept and any particular organization proposing one of many possible solutions. I will attempt to further build out this article to include current functional MRI references to support the commonality of cognitive causality for this addictive grouping. Ddecicco (talk) 22:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)