Psychoanalysis and Addiction

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 therapy movement. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on: Apple Podcasts...

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, inhibition, guilt, and loss.  Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on: Apple...

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 about female sexuality and the myths that society attaches both to women's infidelity and domestic violence. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understandi...

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 myths that men and society have about women's sexuality, and debunk the idea that women are less inclined towards infidelity than men Leadership L...

Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discusses the World Health Organization's category of compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), focusing upon its ambiguous and complicated "marked distress" criteria for diagnosis Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on:...

A mouthful of jargon? No, argues Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction . This episode presents common scenarios culled from dialogues between so-called sex addicts and their impacted or betrayed partners, and asks, what does it mean to be empathetic? to "validate" ? how does a feeling denied get communicated to another? Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Un...

Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discusses the emotional impact of problem sexual behaviors, both for PSBs and their impacted partners, and features a case illustration of a group discussing whether to reveal porn use to an impacted partner Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... L...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , riffs on numerous ideas previously addressed in this podcast series: where analytic perspectives on addiction fit in with the sex addiction field; the ethical/moral biases of practitioners, and how those biases play out among gender divides Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is be...

Opening podcast of season, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , outlines topics that will be addressed on upcoming podcasts, including the re-framing of "the problem"; he then discusses a positive review of his and Joe Farley's book by Kirkus magazine, examining reviewers' comments in detail .  Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding g...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and lead-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , contemplates the pros and cons of the sex addiction label from the point of view of the would-be addict and the impact partner, and then speaks of the intertwining of guilt and shame, in which false guilt, as perpetuated by sex addiction treatment models, often obscure attention to...

Part two of this discussion, Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , offers some case illustrative descriptions culled from his work with female sex addicts/problem sexual behaviors--compares/contrasts with profiles exhibited by male patients--again referencing the writing of Michelle Langley Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better...

Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discusses female sex addiction and women's infidelity, profiling the provocative insights of Michelle Langley, author of Women's Infidelity: Living in Limbo , and highlighting that book's compatibility with psychoanalytic theory Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than tryi...

Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , revisits the chestnut meta debate that exists between proponents of short term treatment options versus those, like Graeme, who advocate for a longer term commitment to in-depth treatment--as "triggered", by marketing tactics used by treatment programs. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature...

Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , welcomes therapist Eddie Capparucci as a guest to the podcast to discuss sex addiction and/or sexual compulsivity, plus the matter of how psychotherapy imparts, facilitates exploration of sexual mores, or imposes a society's values upon those who seek mental health treatment. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understandin...

Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , riffs on ideas of instinct, personality development, Freudian theory, the rigidity of defenses, and relates these ideas to what happens when people seek help for their problems yet impulses still emerge Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen o...

Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , invites therapist and sex addiction expert Don Mathews back to the podcast to discuss a controversial, now nine year old California law about reporting use of underage porn that has moved through supreme and appellate courts and is now about to get its due in an LA superior courtroom. Don is an expert witness in the trial.  Leadership...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , welcomes therapist Andrew Suuskind as a guest to discuss sexual compulsivity, the pathologizing of sex, psychodynamic underpinnings to problem sexual behavior, plus the fostering of emotional resilience and the embracing of imperfection. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discusses again the psychic defense of splitting in the context of one famously understood "split", Freud's Madonna Whore complex, and a lesser known female-to-male splitting analogy, the Saint-Brute. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read an...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , improvises a version of his recent webinar for the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH), about all things to do with psychoanalysis and sex addiction Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on: Apple Podcasts &nb...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , contemplates the presence, the pedigree, the value (or not) of the phrase "actions speak louder than words" in modern culture, and what psychoanalysis, the business world, and the law, have to say, in actions and words, about this principle. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literat...

Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discusses addiction from a psychoanalytic and 12-step perspective, speaking of the importance of consciousness as a precursor to honesty; the problem that addicts often don't know what they're feeling because their defenses are so embedded. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels draws from a vignette from the book Getting Real About Sex Addiction , to discuss the relative merits of individual therapy or psychoanalysis versus couples therapy in the context of sex addiction or infidelity recovery treatment. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on: A...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , welcomes to the podcast two first time guests, therapists Jen Shelby and John Kravitz, to discuss their affiliation, work with sex addicts and impacted partners of sex addiction.  Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on: App...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , reviews Terrence Real's 2022 book, "US", observing its relational life therapy model, which utilizes ideas grounded in psychoanalytic theory as well as modern neurobiology. Daniels further comments upon the book's application to couples therapy. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding...

Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , reviews the book The Heart of Addiction by Lance Dodes, M.D., and focuses upon its thesis: that "true" addictions have a psychological underpinning that entails unconscious defenses against infantile states of rage and helplessness Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying t...