
Getting Real About Sex Addiction
A discussion forum about matters relating to sex addiction from the point of view of psychoanalysis
Episodes
88 episodes
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

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (7): A further reflection on women's infidelity
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, published by Rowman & Littlefield, reflects upon the recent guest appearance of Michelle Langley on the podcast, and considers further her opinions a...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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35:02

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (6): A discussion about women's infidelity with author Michelle Langley
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, welcomes guest Michelle Langley, author of Women's Infidelity: Living in Limbo: What women really mean when they say "I'm not happy", to discuss...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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48:32

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (5): the paradox of marked distress
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses the World Health Organization's categ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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35:43

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (4): Empathy, validation, and projective identification
A mouthful of jargon? No, argues Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction. This ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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35:09

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (3): Jails, Institutions, death, and hurt feelings
Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, discusses the emotional impact of problem sexua...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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30:13

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (2): religious bias with a progressive nod
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, riffs on numerous ideas previo...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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45:50

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S4 (1): A positive review of the book!
Opening podcast of season, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, outlines to...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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42:17

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (25): Shame
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and lead-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction<...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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38:36

Getting Real About Sex Addiction S3 (24): female sex addiction/women's infidelity (part two)
Part two of this discussion, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, offers some case i...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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33:42
