Psychoanalysis and Addiction
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
120 episodes
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, coveri...
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, providi...
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 fir...
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...
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, compa...
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 repetiti...
Psychoanalysis and Addictions: Two analysts talk about their training during Covid
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels welcomes guest Eric Miller to talk about psychoanalytic training amid the Covid crisis, controversies relating to DEI, and the dawning of the AI revolution, as written about in Graeme's latest book,
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 alc...
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 ...
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 observe...
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 ...
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Transference and empathy
In this episode, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels discusses issues relating to confidentiality, diagnosis, assessment of attachment and personality deficits in the context of addiction or infidelity treatment, plus how so-called team app...
If a body catch a body: Holden Caulfield and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels continues his rumination on adolescence. In this episode, he reads passages from his book, An Analyst in Training, p...
The rough scrubbing of the hair: psychoanalysis and adolescence
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, author and psychoanalyst, ruminates on working with adolescents, being an adolescent, and just plain thinking about adolescence through the prisms of art and psychoanalysis: conjuring rock and roll, D.W. Winnico...
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the currency of guilt
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme discusses 3 types of guilt: conscious guilt, as it is commonly invoked in conventional social circles as well as standard addiction treatment models; unconscious guilt, based on Freudian theory, and defensive use...
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: training and the discovery of professional home
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels welcomes two guests, colleagues Joe Farley and Lara Weyland, to discuss psychoanalytic training both before and after the Covid crisis: each discusses personal decisions, the pathways from early training ...
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: stick out your neck against mother media
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels invokes 1984, Jean Lamarck, Marshall McLuhan, D.W. Winnicott, among others, in this rumination upon the technological enhancement of/intrusion upon domestic life. Comments congeal upon a review o...
Treatment of a Recovering Alcoholic with Substitute Addictions (part two)
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels reads from and comment upon his award-winning paper, "Treatment of a Recovering Alcoholic with Substitute Addictions"
Treatment of a Recovering Alcoholic with Substitute Addictions
Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author, discusses his paper entitled "Treatment of a Recovering Alcoholic with Substitute Addictions", which won the 2025 Lee Jaffe prize as awarded by the American Psychoanalytic Association
Psychoanalytic training: flexibility and not quite ending
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels talks about psychoanalytic training amid the covid and post covid era, referencing elements of his own book, An Analyst in Tr...
A Psychoanalytic Idea of Guilt, part two
Graeme Daniels, author and psychoanalyst, takes the concept of guilt from the courtroom to its analogous space in psychoanalysis, contrasting a religious/redemptive model with case illustrations of Oedipal guilt, in the context of "problem" sex...
A Psychoanalytic Idea of Guilt (part one)
In this episode, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels further discusses the aftermath of the trial of AB1775 at the California Superior Court in August, including its anti-climactic judgement. Commentary explores the curious presence of guil...
The trial about sex, child abuse, and the state's right to know about it!
Get comfortable, because soon you won't be. Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels, fresh from his front seat at the trial of child abuse reporting law AB1775, reports and comments upon the testimonies given, the cross examinations leveled, an...
Getting Real About Psychoanalysis 7: The "right to know" what happens in treatment
Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author, presents the first of a two-part commentary about psychotherapy and privacy, pitting the needs of significant others, family, the community--even the state--against the needs for individuals to seek psy...
Getting Real About Psychoanalysis 6: Psychoanalysis spars with a sex addiction specialist
In this episode, psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels chats with Dr. Davide, " the empathy coach" about infidelity and sex addiction treatment, exploring the "2 Es model of emphasis and empathy", and challenging the premises of the "right to...