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Psychoanalysis and Addiction
Hosted by Graeme Daniels · EN
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: always look on the bright (and dark) side of life
4d ago00:35:53Tap to summarizeIn this episode, psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), talks about a 1990 paper by analyst Emmanuel Ghent about surrender, submission, and masochism, and relates its themes to the theories of Freud, Klein, and Winnicott, plus surrealistic devices in cinema, and humor.
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the double bind within addiction treatment
2w ago00:29:49Tap to summarizeGraeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), discusses the problem of double bind communication, especially within short-term iterations of addiction treatment: the privileging of guilt-inducement interventions over attention to underlying fears, feelings of shame.
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: the disease concept is a double edged sword
3w ago00:25:47Tap to summarizePsychoanalyst Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, describes the history of the disease concept of addiction, originally aimed singularly at alcoholism, and remarks on its positive and negative consequences: namely, its potential to obscure exploration of in-depth and relational meanings within addictive phenomena
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: AI says therapists are terrorists, plus other things it might get wrong
Jun 100:44:17Tap to summarizeGraeme Daniels, author of An Analyst in Training, welcomes fellow psychotherapist Mark Lederer as a guest to discuss the emerging role of AI in the practice of psychotherapy. Graeme and Mark discuss psychoanalytic theory, the philosophical implications of using AI in psychotherapy given how it appears to function currently. The discussion poses questions like, would an AI companion call out reaction formations?
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Listening to You
May 2300:45:43Tap to summarizeAuthor and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels continues his reading of his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy, about the famous rock opera. This reading covers the mid-section and finale of the piece, explicating Tommy's schizoid and narcissistic rise and fall, his failed efforts at messianism with a drug-addled following, and his dejected yet accepting defeat.
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: a play upon truth and lies
May 1500:42:38Tap to summarizePsychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels continues his reading of passages from his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy. In this installment, passages reflect upon the pivotal trauma within the opera's plot, then the adaptive (and not) unfolding of Tommy's affliction via psychosomatic or conversion symptoms, as well as the plainer expression of play.Also, click here to read a review of Graeme's book by Kirkus magazine
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: "It" happened
May 900:40:08Tap to summarizeIn this 3rd episode about Tommy the rock opera, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels reads from his book, The Psychology of Tommy, covering passages that describe the pivotal plot point of the opera's opening act, which relates themes of insecure narratives, implicit (or unconscious) memory, and the trauma of silenced witnessingAs a bonus, check out this review of Graeme's book from Kirkus Reviews.
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Sparks and gasoline
May 200:49:46Tap to summarizeIn this episode, author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels reads from his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy, about the famous 1969 rock opera, providing a social surround of its era, including the backdrop of post-WWII Britain, plus of an overview of relevant attachment theory that have informed interpretations of Tommy.
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Ever since I was a young boy...
Apr 2500:40:20Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Graeme Daniels, author and psychoanalyst, marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of an academic paper about the rock opera Tommy, by reading the first chapter from his book The Psychology of Tommy, published in 2019.
Transcribe →Psychoanalysis and Addiction: a trip around informed consent and it's limits, or...what do you expect?
Apr 1100:34:31Tap to summarizeAuthor and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels (An Analyst in Training: Psychoanalytic Candidacy Amid Covid and Other Distractions), goes beyond the basics in this rumination upon the concept of informed consent: a legal and ethical premise which decrees that the patient has the right to know what the treatment is such that they can consent to it. But what actually can be shared?
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