Psychoanalysis and Addiction
Graeme Daniels
A further play upon this podcast's former title, "Getting Real About Sex Addiction" is a discussion forum about matters relating to psychoanalysis, including matters of training, of old and new ideas pertaining to addiction, analytic situations and technique, contemporary events such as Covid and DEI initiatives. Graeme's latest book is entitled, An Analyst in Training: Psychoanalytic Candidacy Amid Covid and other Distractions
Episodes
Mentioned books
Oct 20, 2022 • 49min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 16: sex addiction, child abuse reporting, privacy laws
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, and guest Don Mathews discuss a controversial California law pertaining to child abuse reporting that has significantly impacted the treatment of sex addiction over the last decade.
Oct 8, 2022 • 1h 1min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction: the sex addiction of Dr. Strangelove
Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, reprises a presentation about psychoanalysis, sex addiction, and the classic black comedy, Dr. Strangelove, featuring impersonations, commentary, film and musical clips. Based on a 2021 presentation entitled "Dr. Strangelove in the 21st century, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the virus" (click on link) at the "Creativity and Madness" conference
Sep 25, 2022 • 30min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 14: Riding the high you're disgusted with
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, shares a short story vignette about a male sex addict in a typical "triggering" situation, prefacing the creative illustration with an exposition of two important Freudian concepts: repetition compulsion and death instinct.
Sep 12, 2022 • 57min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 13: Co-authors Graeme and Joe, plus guest Don Mathews, discuss monogamy and polyamory in the context of sex addiction treatment
In this episode, Graeme and guests Joe Farley and Don Mathews discuss sex addiction assessments as they are impacted by monogamistic versus polyamorous values systems, as well as psychoanalytic conceptions; plus, a reading of portions from the book Getting Real About Sex Addiction.
Sep 3, 2022 • 34min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 12: how an addict thinks (or doesn't)
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses addiction from the POV of a psychoanalytic theory of thinking. Addicts don't like to think, or they fear thinking, is the idea. Daniels also speaks of how sex addicts dichotomize their own sexuality and that of objects, referencing Freud's famous Madonna Whore complex.
Aug 27, 2022 • 37min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 11: case illustrations
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses a case illustration of an angry impacted partner from the book, who exhibits splitting defenses, dichotomizing self and others. Daniels also references the work of analyst Vamik Volkan, drawing attention to the analytic treatment of a female sex addict.
Aug 21, 2022 • 49min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 10: Graeme & Joe talk sex addiction and personality issues
In this episode, Graeme introduces Joe Farley, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, and talks about sex addiction, personality disorder, psychoanalysis, with some extra comments about how infidelity fits (or doesn't?) a sex addiction paradigm in 2022.
Jul 29, 2022 • 33min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 9: an analytic approach, how it looks and sounds (2)
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, expands commentary on how confidentiality is managed in a sex addiction treatment episode, and then introduces an important feature of psychoanalytic method, the stance of abstinence and/or therapeutic neutrality, which may not be quite what you think it is.
Jul 22, 2022 • 37min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 8: an analytic approach, how it looks and sounds
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist Graeme Daniels, co-author of the book, Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, reiterates some analytic concepts that are relevant to sex addiction treatment, seeks to demystify the psychoanalytic model by offering a few illustrations
Jul 15, 2022 • 34min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 7: gender bias in the treatment of male versus female sex addicts
Psychoanalytic therapist Graeme Daniels talks about sex addiction/problem sexual behaviors via the lens of psychoanalysis, drawing from his and Joe Farley's book, Getting Real About Sex Addiction. In this episode, he speaks of the ways male sex addicts are treated differently than female sex addicts, starting with the curious discrepancy between rates of men versus women being treated for the condition.
