Psychoanalysis and Addiction podcast

Psychoanalysis and Addiction

Graeme Daniels

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

134 Episodes

Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the dream of the Wolf Man
11/6/2026
26:37
In this episode, psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training) discussed Sigmund Freud's famous case, the "Wolf Man", and in particular, the patient's dream and its implications about the primal scene, filial love, and passive versus active sexuality.
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Get it done!
10/24/2026
28:02
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training) speaks in this episode about Freud's drive theory, drawing upon Neuroscientist Mark Solms' critical essay, "Revision of Drive Theory", and relating ideas to a few clinical vignettes so as to not appear remote and elitist
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Psychoanalysis and Addiction: "after blow"
10/10/2026
34:29
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), discusses concepts of apres coup and repetition compulsion as they related to psychoanalysis and addiction, contrasting this with transformative experiences of affective overwhelm, as presented in the writing of Avgi Saketopoulou.
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: circumventing paths and double binds
9/5/2026
25:01
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training) discusses problems in addiction treatment when providers attempt to reconcile the needs of addicted individuals and their impacted significant others, and inadvertently reinforce the escapism that lies at the heart of addiction
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the paths of overwhelm and consent
8/21/2026
34:44
Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), discusses addiction and pleasure-seeking as it relates to the following: the ethics of affirmative versus limit consent in the context of the drive to overwhelm, based on the paper "The Draw to Overwhelm" by Avgi Saketopoulou.
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: treatment should be free, and not
8/8/2026
28:17
In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training) discusses the practice of free consultations in the context of Freud's recommendations for treatment, as well as the specter of mandated treatment scenarios, which run counter to psychoanalytic principles
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Protect your ego, not someone's heart
7/27/2026
25:35
Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), once again critiques/pokes fun at the addiction treatment field: its Hollywood style populist guilt-trippy interventions, tendentious pronouncements; its conflating of empathy and guilt.
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: psychoanalysis and couples being active and not biased
7/11/2026
36:39
Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), explores how psychoanalysis adapts itself to the framework of couples therapy despite its reputation as a theoretical model that is fundamentally unsuited to the treatment of couples according to some in pop psychology quarters.
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: always look on the bright (and dark) side of life
6/27/2026
35:53
In this episode, psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), talks about a 1990 paper by analyst Emmanuel Ghent about surrender, submission, and masochism, and relates its themes to the theories of Freud, Klein, and Winnicott, plus surrealistic devices in cinema, and humor.
Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the double bind within addiction treatment
6/19/2026
29:49
Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), discusses the problem of double bind communication, especially within short-term iterations of addiction treatment: the privileging of guilt-inducement interventions over attention to underlying fears, feelings of shame.

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