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
Psychoanalysis and Addiction
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the disease concept is a double edged sword
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Psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, describes the history of the disease concept of addiction, originally aimed singularly at alcoholism, and remarks on its positive and negative consequences: namely, its potential to obscure exploration of in-depth and relational meanings within addictive phenomena