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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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  • 22 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 36 min
  • English
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  • 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

  • S5 · E20
    Dec 23, 2025 · 32 min

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Training amid Covid and the DEI legacy

    In this episode, Graeme Daniels, author and psychoanalyst, discusses Covid and DEI impacts on psychoanalytic training, reading passages from his book, An Analyst in Training, published this year by Bloomsbury. Smells Like Humans Like listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

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