Hypothesis & Theory ARTICLE Front. Psychiatry, 03 March 2016 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00006 Emmanuel Stip1,2*, Alexis Thibault1, Alexis Beauchamp-Chatel1 and Steve Kisely3,4,5 1Département de Psychiatrie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada 2Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montréal, QC, Canada 3School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 4Department of Psychiatry, […]
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COMMENTS: This paper was published under the “Debate” category in the journal ‘Addiction‘. Its main weakness is that it purports to address compulsive sexual behavior (CSB), an umbrella term that covers everything sexual. For example, “CSB” can encompass hypersexuality or “sex addiction” and may include such behaviors as serial infidelity or acting out with prostitutes. […]
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