Psychoanalysis and Addiction

Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the disease concept is a double edged sword

SFX Producer Season 6 Episode 14

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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