Getting Real About Sex Addiction
A discussion forum about matters relating to sex addiction from the point of view of psychoanalysis
Getting Real About Sex Addiction
Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (4): Empathy, validation, and projective identification
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Graeme Daniels
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Season 4
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Episode 4
A mouthful of jargon? No, argues Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction. This episode presents common scenarios culled from dialogues between so-called sex addicts and their impacted or betrayed partners, and asks, what does it mean to be empathetic? to "validate" ? how does a feeling denied get communicated to another?