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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

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  • S6 · E20
    August 21 · 34 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the paths of overwhelm and consent

    Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), discusses addiction and pleasure-seeking as it relates to the following: the ethics of affirmative versus limit consent in the context of the drive to overwhelm, based on the paper "The Draw to Overwhelm" by Avgi Saketopoulou.

  • S6 · E19
    August 8 · 28 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: treatment should be free, and not

    In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training) discusses the practice of free consultations in the context of Freud's recommendations for treatment, as well as the specter of mandated treatment scenarios, which run counter to psychoanalytic principles

  • S6 · E18
    July 27 · 25 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Protect your ego, not someone's heart

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), once again critiques/pokes fun at the addiction treatment field: its Hollywood style populist guilt-trippy interventions, tendentious pronouncements; its conflating of empathy and guilt.

  • S6 · E17
    July 11 · 36 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: psychoanalysis and couples being active and not biased

    Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), explores how psychoanalysis adapts itself to the framework of couples therapy despite its reputation as a theoretical model that is fundamentally unsuited to the treatment of couples according to some in pop psychology quarters.

  • S6 · E16
    June 27 · 35 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: always look on the bright (and dark) side of life

    In this episode, psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), talks about a 1990 paper by analyst Emmanuel Ghent about surrender, submission, and masochism, and relates its themes to the theories of Freud, Klein, and Winnicott, plus surrealistic devices in cinema, and humor.

  • S6 · E15
    June 19 · 29 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the double bind within addiction treatment

    Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), discusses the problem of double bind communication, especially within short-term iterations of addiction treatment: the privileging of guilt-inducement interventions over attention to underlying fears, feelings of shame.

  • S6 · E14
    June 13 · 25 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the disease concept is a double edged sword

    Psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, describes the history of the disease concept of addiction, originally aimed singularly at alcoholism, and remarks on its positive and negative consequences: namely, its potential to obscure exploration of in-depth and relational meanings within addictive phenomena

  • S6 · E13
    June 1 · 44 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: AI says therapists are terrorists, plus other things it might get wrong

    Graeme Daniels, author of An Analyst in Training, welcomes fellow psychotherapist Mark Lederer as a guest to discuss the emerging role of AI in the practice of psychotherapy. Graeme and Mark discuss psychoanalytic theory, the philosophical implications of using AI in psychotherapy given how it appears to function currently. The discussion poses questions like, would an AI companion call out reaction formations?

  • S6 · E12
    May 23 · 45 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Listening to You

    Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels continues his reading of his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy, about the famous rock opera. This reading covers the mid-section and finale of the piece, explicating Tommy's schizoid and narcissistic rise and fall, his failed efforts at messianism with a drug-addled following, and his dejected yet accepting defeat.

  • S6 · E11
    May 15 · 42 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: a play upon truth and lies

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels continues his reading of passages from his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy. In this installment, passages reflect upon the pivotal trauma within the opera's plot, then the adaptive (and not) unfolding of Tommy's affliction via psychosomatic or conversion symptoms, as well as the plainer expression of play. Also, click here to read a review of Graeme's book by Kirkus magazine

  • S6 · E10
    May 9 · 40 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: "It" happened

    In this 3rd episode about Tommy the rock opera, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels reads from his book, The Psychology of Tommy, covering passages that describe the pivotal plot point of the opera's opening act, which relates themes of insecure narratives, implicit (or unconscious) memory, and the trauma of silenced witnessing As a bonus, check out this review of Graeme's book from Kirkus Reviews.

  • S6 · E9
    May 2 · 49 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Sparks and gasoline

    In this episode, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels reads from his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy, about the famous 1969 rock opera, providing a social surround of its era, including the backdrop of post-WWII Britain, plus of an overview of relevant attachment theory that have informed interpretations of Tommy.

  • S6 · E8
    April 25 · 40 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Ever since I was a young boy...

    In this episode, Graeme Daniels, author and psychoanalyst, marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of an academic paper about the rock opera Tommy, by reading the first chapter from his book The Psychology of Tommy, published in 2019.

  • S6 · E7
    April 11 · 34 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: a trip around informed consent and it's limits, or...what do you expect?

    Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels (An Analyst in Training: Psychoanalytic Candidacy Amid Covid and Other Distractions), goes beyond the basics in this rumination upon the concept of informed consent: a legal and ethical premise which decrees that the patient has the right to know what the treatment is such that they can consent to it. But what actually can be shared?

  • S6 · E6
    March 29 · 32 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Portrait of an analyst as a youngish man

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels discusses his latest book, An Analyst in Training: Psychoanalytic Candidacy Amid Covid and Other Distractions, comparing its themes to those embedded in cherished novels from the 20th century: Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

  • S6 · E5
    March 17 · 32 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Ooo-Ah!

    In this episode, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels reflects on his recent trip to Europe, in which he traveled safely yet not without disruption, and parlays observations into a discussion of Freudian and Lacanian ideas: those of repetition compulsion, "fort-da", the surprise of the "real", and the jouissance within symptoms.

  • S6 · E3
    February 5 · 41 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: big shot at the conference

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels reflects on his appearance at this year's American Psychoanalytic Association (Apsa) national meeting in San Francisco: his receiving the 2026 Lee Jaffe award for his paper, "Treatment of a recovering alcoholic with substitute addictions", and his presentation of that paper alongside discussant Dr. Lance Dodes

  • S6 · E2
    January 27 · 28 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: about expertise and training

    Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels talks in this episode about program accreditation, training and educational standards in the field of professional psychology, the publishing of ideas--the fraught, much-marketed idea of "expertise"--and gives consumer tips on what to look for seeking mental health treatment

  • S6 · E1
    January 14 · 47 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Skipping over the ball and chain

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels profiles a 2019 analytic paper by Graeme Taylor entitled "Creativity and Perversion: waiting for the muse", about a man beset with addictive paraphilia and a thwarting of creative impulse. Daniels observes how such an insight-oriented, in-depth treatment such as this would struggle to co-exist alongside the zeitgeist of infidelity treatment models that privilege guilt-leveraging interventions

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