Psychoanalysis and Addiction

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

  1. 23H AGO

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Training amid Covid and the DEI legacy

    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.

    31 min

  2. DEC 9

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Transference and empathy

    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

    31 min

  3. NOV 28

    If a body catch a body: Holden Caulfield and Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels continues his rumination on adolescence. In this episode, he reads passages from his book, An Analyst in Training, published this year by Bloomsbury, and from the novel, Catcher in the Rye, whose protagonist, Holden Caulfield, features as part of a motif in Graeme's non-fiction.

    35 min

  4. NOV 19

    The rough scrubbing of the hair: psychoanalysis and adolescence

    In this episode, Graeme Daniels, author and psychoanalyst, ruminates on working with adolescents, being an adolescent, and just plain thinking about adolescence through the prisms of art and psychoanalysis: conjuring rock and roll, D.W. Winnicott, Shakespeare, surfing on an open sea, or else being disrupted by the sounds of grinding lead.

    32 min

  5. NOV 8

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the currency of guilt

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme discusses 3 types of guilt: conscious guilt, as it is commonly invoked in conventional social circles as well as standard addiction treatment models; unconscious guilt, based on Freudian theory, and defensive use of guilt against underlying feelings of shame.

    29 min

  6. OCT 26

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: training and the discovery of professional home

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels welcomes two guests, colleagues Joe Farley and Lara Weyland, to discuss psychoanalytic training both before and after the Covid crisis: each discusses personal decisions, the pathways from early training experiences to the discovery of what draws therapists into in-depth psychoanalysis

    59 min

  7. OCT 20

    Psychoanalysis and Addiction: stick out your neck against mother media

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels invokes 1984, Jean Lamarck, Marshall McLuhan, D.W. Winnicott, among others, in this rumination upon the technological enhancement of/intrusion upon domestic life. Comments congeal upon a review of the book, Mother Media: hot and cold parenting in the 20th century, by Hannah Zeavin.

    29 min

  8. OCT 11

    Treatment of a Recovering Alcoholic with Substitute Addictions (part two)

    Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels reads from and comment upon his award-winning paper, "Treatment of a Recovering Alcoholic with Substitute Addictions"

    40 min
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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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  • Creator
    Graeme Daniels
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    110
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Psychoanalysis and Addiction
  • Show Website
    Psychoanalysis and Addiction

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