Psychoanalysis and Addiction

The pros and cons of working in a team: Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discusses the history/trend of treating addictions with a so-called team approach, highlighting the reasons that collaborative models are popular and worthwhile, exposing what is problematic pertaining to patient-clinician confidentiality Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding gre...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels and Joe Farley, authors of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , tell anecdotes about feeling exposed, shameful, under pressure, yet working through tough moments with a sense of dignity and resilience. The questions are: how do people cope with their most primitive insecurities? Who are we in such moments, and what can we summon from inside, our reptilian brains or ou...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , revisits intersectional issues, socio-political undercurrents that influence/infiltrate the therapeutic space of sex addiction treatment, and then applies these ideas to the case of an impacted partner previously spoken of in this series and profiled more comprehensively in the book. Leadership Lessons From The Great...

Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , follows-up on matters of guilt, shame, the phenomena of repetition compulsion, defenses like displacement, with a discourse on how these ideas relate to female sex addiction and the treatment of impacted or betrayed partners.  Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and unde...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , reviews some basics regarding SA treatment: SA as a diagnostic matter, the marginal yet influential role of psychoanalysis; extending from that, this episode reviews the significance of symptom-formation, displacement, acting out, and repetition compulsion, as important theoretical concepts that inform treatment appro...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , previews his and Joe Farley's forthcoming webinar presentation at the annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (whew-got that out!) with a second rumination on the subject of perversion with a nod towards Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. Oh, and robots! Leadership Lessons From Th...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , talks about perversion from a psychoanalytic perspective, not a religious or moralistic one, and relates the subject to sex addiction treatment, plus concepts of voyeurism, fetishism, and masochism. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , addresses use of full disclosure exercises and polygraph examiners in sex addiction treatment, and follows-up upon a recent podcast about the views of Belgian therapist Esther Perel relating to infidelity and sexual mores in the 21st century Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is bet...

In this first episode of season 3, Graeme Daniels and Joe Farley, co-authors of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , speak about the psychoanalytic concept of countertransference as a crucial aspect of treatment: the clinicians thoughts and feelings, drawn from the past, that transfer onto therapeutic relationships. An overview of theory and case illustration. Leadership Lessons From The Great Books...

No laugh track, applause, or gimmick sound effect on this one: two guys, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , and Pedro Job, clinical psychologist from Lisbon, Portugal, have an impromptu conversation about important concepts in psychoanalysis: projection, projective identification; about getting lost or else figuring out who we are, in relationship to others and ourselv...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , shares from his essay entitled "The Shadow of Esther Perel" which reviews the Belgian therapist's 2017 book, State of Affairs: rethinking infidelity , and links his commentary to psychoanalytic principles and in particular, the current state of sex addiction treatment....

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , welcomes clinical psychologist Pedro Job as a guest from Portugal to discuss the psychic defenses of projection and projective identification: what is projecting into versus projecting onto, and how does this apply to the workings of addictive thinking.  Leadership Lessons From The G...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , gets back into analytic theory, expounding upon Freud's repetition compulsion, Melanie Klein's theories of projective identification, oral and anal sadistic impulses, and locates them as antecedents to some concepts that are prominent in modern day pop psychology. Leadershi...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , pays tribute to the late Martin Amis, a novelist and essayist who had something to say about porn addiction. Daniels also provides an informal post-mortem on the Covid-psychotherapy era: what's changed about how therapists work, how sex addicts play, and what might now stick aro...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , expands upon ideas of group psychology, adding elements that influence the practice of group therapy: from the tacit rules or "contracts" that bind groups, segregate groups, protect from external groups, to the habits that people exhibit when expressing themselves in company. Leadership Lessons From The Grea...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , wades again into the intersection of addiction theory and social mores, exploring how societal "groups" that are institutions, niche fields in psychotherapy, recovery movements, philosophical traditions, shape the values that are insinuated into mental health treatments. Leade...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels and Joe Farley, authors of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , talk about how the consumer of psychotherapy and addiction services has been lied to about what is effective treatment, providing illustrations from their book, including contemporary empirical research on treatment efficacy.  Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is bette...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , again remarks on the staples of psychotherapy, this time time commenting upon non-verbal versus verbal communication, citing illustrations relevant to addiction and couples' communication, and relaying theory by the likes of D.W. Winnicott, Jacques Lacan, and Sigmund Freud. Lead...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , critiques some commonplace ideas within psychotherapy, remarking on the verbosity with which ideas of empathy, "boundaries", "I" statement prescription, love language tropes are invoked and dispensed in the field of treatment Leadership Lessons From The Great Book...

In this episode, Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , shares a short story that illustrates conflict avoidance, inhibition, plus fantasies of disinhibition and redemption via a symbol of romance and apology, in the context of a group experience.  Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... L...

No tik tok video with someone reading off symptoms from a diagnostic standards manual. Graeme Daniels and Joe Farley, authors of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discuss Schizoid personality disorder and/or type in the context of recent podcasts about Narcissism and Borderline Personality disorder, trace the history of psychoanalytic theory relating to Schizoid personality, and relate the phenom...

Teasingly curious title, maybe? Graeme Daniels reads a few passages from his and Joe Farley's book, Getting Real About Sex Addiction , contextualizes its content, both in terms of sex addiction treatment and psychoanalytic theory, but also with respect to current events Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)......

Right up there with the question, is this a thing? In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and co-author of the book, Getting Real About Sex Addiction , takes a brief swipe at this topical question/issue, observing nuances from previous discussions on this subject, most notably how notions of "sickness and health" as it pertains to the disease concept of addiction...

No, not a cheesy "how to spot and deal with a borderline" show. Graeme Daniels and Joe Farley, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and co-authors of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discuss the controversial diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), comparing it to Narcissistic Personality Disorder, reviewing its history in the field of psychoanalysis, tracing its theoretical eti...

Graeme Daniels, co-author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction , discusses the undercurrents of hate, and in particular gendered hate, that exist within sex addiction, and with the human mind in general, as a product of our primitive capacity for splitting defenses Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on:...