Psychoanalysis and Addiction

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 treatment efficacy, and offers an anecdotal vignette as to how a psychoanalytic treatment  might explore the mind of an addict in treatment.  Leadership Lessons From T...

part two of Graeme Daniels' excoriation of contrived labeling in the field of sex addiction treatment. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

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 but not standardized conditions as determined by the American Psychiatric Association or the World Health Organization, or peer-reviewed in professional literature. L...

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 repetition compulsion as it relates to self-punishing/pleasure-seeking behaviors of addiction, plus the displacement of guilt via patient/addict and--equall...

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 public presentation at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than...

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 dream reveals (and represses) elements of aggression, fears of death, of castration anxiety relating to Oedipal wishes and a memory of a "primal s...

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...