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
113 episodes
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...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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41:16
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 ...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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28:14
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...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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47:37
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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31:29
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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30:37
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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34:51
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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32:02
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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28:50
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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59:26
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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29:00
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"
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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40:08
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
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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40:19
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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29:50
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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32:48
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