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Psychoanalysis and Addiction

Psychoanalysis and Addiction

Written by: Graeme Daniels
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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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  • Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Skipping over the ball and chain

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Skipping over the ball and chain
    Jan 14 2026

    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 thwarting of creative impulse. Daniels observes how such an insight-oriented, in-depth treatment such as this would struggle to co-exist alongside the zeitgeist of infidelity treatment models that privilege guilt-leveraging interventions
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    48 mins
  • Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Training amid Covid and the DEI legacy

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Training amid Covid and the DEI legacy
    Dec 23 2025

    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 Bloomsbury.
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    31 mins
  • Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Transference and empathy

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Transference and empathy
    Dec 9 2025

    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 infidelity treatment, plus how so-called team approaches can mismanage confidentiality boundaries to confound treatment goals
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    31 mins
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