Therapists Analyze the Osbournes

May 10 -- When you first see the Osbourne family on their hit show on MTV, they seem like the embodiment of domestic dysfunction.

Dad — hard-rock star Ozzy Osbourne — was for years notorious for drug and alcohol abuse, and for antics like biting the head off a bat during one of his shows. Now he stumbles around the house, complaining and mumbling almost incoherently that his family are "all f---ing mad."

Mom, Ozzy's wife and manager Sharon, has an equally foul mouth. When her kids are screaming at each other, her usual parenting response is to halfheartedly tell them to stop, barely hiding her own amusement.

The two kids, 17-year-old Kelly and 16-year-old Jack, regularly go out to nightclubs until 2 a.m. (their parents let them). Kelly has bright pink hair. Her brother wears a camouflage helmet around the house, and sported a mohawk for a while.

But through all the shouting and name-calling and drama, the four Osbournes (an older sister, Aimee, 18, lives on her own and does not participate in the show) seem to keep a sense of humor and fun — and an obvious affection for each other.

So which is it? Do the Osbournes represent dysfunction and disaster, or are they a healthy — if unusual — family?

In the third report of his six-part "Family Fix" series, 20/20's John Stossel asked two psychologists to watch tapes from the show and evaluate the family. He then shared the experts' observations with Sharon, Kelly and Jack.

Raised Voices, Bad Language

One of the psychologists, Manhattan therapist Sheenah Hankin, said the family's tendency to turn any conflict into a shouting match might make the children "yellers and screamers" as adults — something that could hurt their relationships and careers.

When told that, Sharon Osbourne had a typically memorable phrase for the psychologists: "They can suck my freshly lipo-ed a--, because no, we're not perfect and all of this. If they want to grow up to be yellers and screamers, so what?"