Psychoanalysis and Addiction
Graeme Daniels
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About This Podcast
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
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S6E14 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the disease concept is a double edged sword
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…
S6E13 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: AI says therapists are terrorists, plus other things it might get wrong
Graeme Daniels, author of An Analyst in Training, welcomes fellow psychotherapist Mark Lederer as a guest to discuss the emerging role of AI in the practice of psychotherapy. Graeme and Mark discuss…
S6E12 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Listening to You
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels continues his reading of his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy, about the famous rock opera. This reading covers the mid-section and finale of the piece,…
S6E11 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: a play upon truth and lies
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels continues his reading of passages from his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy. In this installment, passages reflect upon the pivotal trauma within the opera's…
S6E10 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: "It" happened
In this 3rd episode about Tommy the rock opera, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels reads from his book, The Psychology of Tommy, covering passages that describe the pivotal plot point of the…
S6E9 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Sparks and gasoline
In this episode, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels reads from his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy, about the famous 1969 rock opera, providing a social surround of its era, including the…
S6E8 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Ever since I was a young boy...
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, author and psychoanalyst, marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of an academic paper about the rock opera Tommy, by reading the first chapter from his book…
S6E7 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: a trip around informed consent and it's limits, or...what do you expect?
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels (An Analyst in Training: Psychoanalytic Candidacy Amid Covid and Other Distractions), goes beyond the basics in this rumination upon the concept of informed…
S6E6 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Portrait of an analyst as a youngish man
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels discusses his latest book, An Analyst in Training: Psychoanalytic Candidacy Amid Covid and Other Distractions, comparing its themes to those embedded in…
S6E5 Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Ooo-Ah!
In this episode, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels reflects on his recent trip to Europe, in which he traveled safely yet not without disruption, and parlays observations into a discussion of…
S6E4 Psychoanalysis and Addictions: Two analysts talk about their training during Covid
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels welcomes guest Eric Miller to talk about psychoanalytic training amid the Covid crisis, controversies relating to DEI, and the dawning of the AI revolution, as…
S6E3 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…
S6E2 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…
S6E1 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…
S5E20 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 Training, published this year by…
S5E19 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…
S5E18 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, published this year by Bloomsbury, and from…
S5E17 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…
S5E16 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…
S5E15 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…
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Psychoanalysis and Addiction has published 124 episodes since June 2022, covering topics in Philosophy, Relationships.
Psychoanalysis and Addiction is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 39m.
