
Getting Real About Psychoanalysis
A play upon this podcast's former title, "Getting Real" 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
Episodes
99 episodes
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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39:26

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...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:11:39

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...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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34:56

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...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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47:19

Getting Real About Psychoanalysis 5: An Analyst in Training
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels introduces his book, An Analyst in Training, published by Bloomsbury, in conversation with Portuguese psychologist Pedro Job. The compare training experiences in Portugal versus the United States...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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55:39

Getting Real about Psychoanalysis (4): On Kiss-Cams and Eagle-eyed Ge-jeans
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels discusses Freud's concepts of infantile sexuality, slips, group psychology, plus latter-day analytic theories of a social unconscious within the context of today's quickly moving, disposable, and replacea...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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36:42

Getting Real About Psychoanalysis (3): Broken Open in the Power Down
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels speaks about the writings of Avgi Saketopoulou, commenting on her concepts of psychic overwhelm, transgressive play, affirmative and limit consent, in the context of sadomasochistic rituals, with an eye t...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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31:28

Getting Real About Psychoanalysis (2): Submission, surrender, masochism, and being eaten
In this episode, psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels talks about masochism, surrender and submission, weaving in theories of Freud, Klein, and Winnicott with reflections upon addiction, BDSM, repetition compulsion, even rape--all relating to a paper b...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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41:46

Getting Real About Psychoanalysis: Sexualizing Asymmetric Time
Psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels begins his newly re-configured podcast series with a review of a paper by Israeli psychiatrist/analyst Amit Saad: a paper about time arrows, the timelessness of the unconscious, causal loops, the Oedipal myth and Oe...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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25:50

Getting Real About Sex Addiction (bonus): Training and personality disorder, addiction, and...do I just hit pillows?
Psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, a Bloomsbury/Rowman & Littlefield publication, discusses the fraught cottage industry of personality disorder and addiction treatment training, lambasti...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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48:05

Getting Real About Sex Addiction (bonus episode): That trial's been delayed again!
Psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels, lead author of the book Getting Real About Sex Addiction (published by Rowman & Littlefield), excoriates the California Superior Court, which has once again delayed its trial of AB 1775, a 201...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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35:01

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (21): Fecal missiles, Mother Earth, and God's warm hug
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, a Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury publication, talks psychoanalysis, masculine ego, psychosis and addiction, with Portuguese psychologist Pedro Job, relating these su...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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57:32

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (20): The problem of mandated treatment, or none at all
In this follow-up to his discussion with AB1775 plaintiff Don Mathews, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, a Rowman & Littlefield publication, speaks of laws that inhibit proper use of mental treatment,...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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30:00

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4(19): Child abuse reporting law finally gets its court date
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, interviews Don Mathews, plaintiff in the forthcoming case against the state of California and a 2015 law originally named Assembly ...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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52:43

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (18): Who's the patient and what's the story?
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, reads an email from a disgruntled impacted partner about responses to Esther Perel's State of Affairs. From this, Daniels ...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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45:01

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (17): Splits
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses factions within the fields of sex add...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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36:41

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (16): Control behavior, not feeling, and don't try to converse with a tick
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, discusses the problem of being a neurotic--not controlling how you feel--which underlies many addictions, which is...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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28:21

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (15): Where am I going with that?
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, talks about the vagaries of sex addiction or infidelity treatment--its flawed premises and biases--particularly with respect to tre...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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33:11

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (14): Integrity disorder (part two)
part two of Graeme Daniels' excoriation of contrived labeling in the field of sex addiction treatment.
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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30:15

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4(13): Integrity disorder
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, discusses the language of mental health disorders, distinguishing for the listener categories that are prominent in social media bu...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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30:36

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (12): Born Small, Addicted to Guilt (part two)
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, reads part two of his analytic paper, "Born Small, Addicted to Guilt", presenting the case of Mr. D, illustrating the concept of re...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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49:47

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (11): Born Small, Addicted to Guilt (part one)
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, offers a preview of his academic paper, "Born Small, Addicted to Guilt", about psychoanalytic treatment of addiction, ahead of his ...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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35:49

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (10): The unconscious of the Wolf Man
Graeme Daniels, lead author of the book, Getting Real About Sex Addiction, continues a discussion of the unconscious, venturing into a famous dream of a patient of Sigmund Freud's, dubbed "Wolf Man". The interpretation of his famous dr...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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34:36

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (9): Deconstructing the sex positive
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, discusses the implications, the subtext, and the truer meanings within the increasingly popular sex positive thera...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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28:19

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (8): The Unconscious
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, talks in historical and Freudian terms about the unconscious as a centerpiece of a psychoanalytic approach to the treatment of somatic symptoms, inhibiti...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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34:29
