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Her father is a compulsive gambler, and their family is having real financial difficulties as a result.

It was difficult for a compulsive repeater who was used to saying over and over some phrase or song that caught in his mind.

" Clinton deserves sympathy and compassion, not vitriol, because he exercises no control over his compulsive sexual behavior.

Considering his abusive, alcoholic stepfather, his substance abusing brother, his mother's penchant for gambling, and his own compulsive eating and alleged womanizing, Clinton's family looked like a case study in a codependency book.

In the 1980s, the movement popularized the notion that behaviors could be as addictive as substances such as cocaine or alcohol, and it founded 12-step programs for compulsive shoppers, gamblers, sexaholics, and so on.

Among experts who treat and study compulsive behaviors and chemical dependencies, there is controversy over the meaning of the term "addiction" and the efficacy of the disease model for a range of supposed addictions, from alcoholism to compulsive gambling.

Despite the fact that virtually nothing is known about Darger's inner life, MacGregor (typically, for a critic of outsider art) writes confidently about how compulsive Darger was, how he couldn't control his urge to produce all that crazy stuff, how he couldn't distinguish between fantasy and reality, how he was a potential serial killer, how he got sexually excited writing descriptions of burning forests.

Sarah Whitfield (who installed the show for its previous run at London's Tate Gallery), while not denying the compulsive nature of Marthe's bathing, has suggested that hydropathy was a popular treatment for such ailments as tubercular laryngitis, which Marthe suffered from and eventually, in 1942, died of.

Readers who want a more complete picture should read two other books: Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984), which gives a still-fresh account of MIT's Project MAC (not coincidentally funded by Licklider), an enterprise dominated by the "hacker ethic"--the compulsive urge to explore and improve on things.

First Nina Sutton and now Richard Pollak expose the renowned psychoanalyst as a compulsive teller of tall tales about his own life.

" On the other hand, his buddy Worm (Edward Norton), newly discharged from prison, is a reckless and compulsive cheat who gets off on perpetually putting one impudent twinkle toe over the line.

My Anderson frenzy might make sense if I were, say, a compulsive gambler who'd pawned his fiancee's engagement ring to wager against Kentucky.

The latter, a compulsive obscene phone caller who longs for his sleek, chic neighbor, is the psychiatric patient of Bill Maplewood (Dylan Baker), who happens to be the husband of Helen's older sister, chipper Trish (Cynthia Stevenson)--and also a pedophile who, in the course of the film, drugs little boys and has (off camera) sex with them.

She is so weak from dieting and compulsive exercising that the show's producers have cut back on her screen time, says the publication.

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