Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, is a nationally recognized authority on the social and psychological dynamics related to African-American life and culture in this country. For more than 20 years his numerous articles on male-female relations, crime, teenage issues, substance abuse, and the Black family have appeared in leading magazine and journals. Since 1984 he has been a production consultant for the popular television program, the Bill Cosby Show.