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
Apr 23, 2024 • 34min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (24): female sex addiction/women's infidelity (part two)
Part two of this discussion, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, offers some case illustrative descriptions culled from his work with female sex addicts/problem sexual behaviors--compares/contrasts with profiles exhibited by male patients--again referencing the writing of Michelle Langley
Apr 23, 2024 • 35min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (23): female sex addiction/women's infidelity
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses female sex addiction and women's infidelity, profiling the provocative insights of Michelle Langley, author of Women's Infidelity: Living in Limbo, and highlighting that book's compatibility with psychoanalytic theory
Apr 15, 2024 • 34min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (22): Short term treatment versus the in-depth long term
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, revisits the chestnut meta debate that exists between proponents of short term treatment options versus those, like Graeme, who advocate for a longer term commitment to in-depth treatment--as "triggered", by marketing tactics used by treatment programs.
Apr 7, 2024 • 47min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (21): sexual integrity
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, welcomes therapist Eddie Capparucci as a guest to the podcast to discuss sex addiction and/or sexual compulsivity, plus the matter of how psychotherapy imparts, facilitates exploration of sexual mores, or imposes a society's values upon those who seek mental health treatment.
Mar 16, 2024 • 30min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (20): instinct and personality, nature and nurture
Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, riffs on ideas of instinct, personality development, Freudian theory, the rigidity of defenses, and relates these ideas to what happens when people seek help for their problems yet impulses still emerge
Mar 6, 2024 • 50min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (19): That child abuse reporting law is going to trial!
Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, invites therapist and sex addiction expert Don Mathews back to the podcast to discuss a controversial, now nine year old California law about reporting use of underage porn that has moved through supreme and appellate courts and is now about to get its due in an LA superior courtroom. Don is an expert witness in the trial.
Feb 21, 2024 • 48min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (18): Psychodynamics, sexual compulsivity and positive psychology
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, welcomes therapist Andrew Suuskind as a guest to discuss sexual compulsivity, the pathologizing of sex, psychodynamic underpinnings to problem sexual behavior, plus the fostering of emotional resilience and the embracing of imperfection.
Feb 15, 2024 • 32min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (17): The splits of Madonna-Whore and Saint-Brute
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses again the psychic defense of splitting in the context of one famously understood "split", Freud's Madonna Whore complex, and a lesser known female-to-male splitting analogy, the Saint-Brute.
Feb 2, 2024 • 53min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (16): All (or most) of what I have to say about SA
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, improvises a version of his recent webinar for the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH), about all things to do with psychoanalysis and sex addiction
Jan 19, 2024 • 34min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (15): the illusion of action
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, contemplates the presence, the pedigree, the value (or not) of the phrase "actions speak louder than words" in modern culture, and what psychoanalysis, the business world, and the law, have to say, in actions and words, about this principle.
