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
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Feb 18, 2023 • 38min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S2 (5): Excess drive and betrayal, the two benchmarks of SA
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses recently historical criteria for assessing sex addiction, citing proposed diagnostic categories, and separates that consideration from the observation of discovery and betrayal phenomenon, which so often serve as that which leverages a therapeutic intervention
Feb 10, 2023 • 32min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S2 (4): more on impacted partners, blaming, psychoanalytic and alternative approaches
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, re-visits the treatment of impacted partners, discusses controversies around victim-blaming, revisits the matter of denied experiences, revisited memories, the theory of Apres Coup, plus additional comment about the case illustration of Anne.
Jan 27, 2023 • 34min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S2 (3): Secrets keep you sick
Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses this well-known 12-step recovery slogan in the context of a psychoanalytic treatment, a would-be couples therapy episode that will address sexually acting out, seen through a psychoanalytic lens. This poses the question, what happens if a patient says, "should I tell my partner why I'm seeking treatment?"
Jan 17, 2023 • 36min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S2 (2): case illustration of an impacted partner of sex addiction
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, recounts a case illustration of an impacted partner of sex addiction, taken from his and Joe Farley's book, Getting Real About Sex Addiction. Daniels speaks to the trauma, both recent and historical, that manifests in the patient's life, distorting relationships yet playing out live in the treatment process.
Jan 3, 2023 • 52min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S2 (1): Review of season one ideas, preview of more to come
Welcome to season two and the year 2023! Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and co-author of the book, Getting Real About Sex Addiction, reviews all the principles, facts, and theories discussed in season 1 relating to sex addiction treatment and psychoanalysis, and previews how these areas will be expanded upon in season 2.
Dec 20, 2022 • 55min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 21: addiction, 12-step recovery, therapy and analysis
in this episode, Graeme Daniels and Joe Farley, authors of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, are joined by recovery specialist Haven Jo Beck to discuss addiction, the history of the 12-step movement as influenced (or not) by psychoanalysis, plus the bridge between 12-step recovery and in-depth psychotherapy.
Dec 9, 2022 • 34min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 20: the roots of sex addiction, part two (feminist theories)
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, revisits the roots of sex addiction matters, this time sketching and commenting upon feminist theories from psychoanalysis that are popular both within sex addiction treatment and across psychotherapeutic models
Nov 26, 2022 • 33min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 19: etiology, the theoretical roots of sex addiction
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses etiological, psychoanalytic theories that relate to sex addiction, contrasting the ideas of attachment theory, Freudian psychoanalysis, and modern psychoanalytic thinkers like Jean LaPlanche.
Nov 12, 2022 • 56min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 18: treating Narcissism alongside sex addiction
In this episode, Graeme Daniels and Joe Farley, authors of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discuss treatment of Narcissism in the context of sex addiction: as a legitimate point of clinical concern, and also as a weaponized, dubiously applied label.
Nov 4, 2022 • 36min
Getting Real About Sex Addiction 17: group therapy/group psychology and sex addiction
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, profiles the uses of the group format in the treatment of sex addiction, the influence of the 12 step movement with respect to group psychology, and discusses psychoanalytic theory relating to group psychology, drawing upon the writings of Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Bion
