Getting Real About Sex Addiction

About Getting Real About Sex Addiction

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

Publisher

Graeme Daniels

Category

science · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jun 2022

Latest episode

8 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

129 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Aug 2026

   Psychoanalysis and Addiction: treatment should be free, and not

   In this episode, Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training) discusses the practice of free consultations in the context of Freud's recommendations for treatment, as well as the specter of mandated treatment scenarios, which run counter to psychoanalytic principles

2. 

   27 Jul 2026

   Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Protect your ego, not someone's heart

   Psychoanalyst and author Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), once again critiques/pokes fun at the addiction treatment field: its Hollywood style populist guilt-trippy interventions, tendentious pronouncements; its conflating of empathy and guilt.

3. 

   11 Jul 2026

   Psychoanalysis and Addiction: psychoanalysis and couples being active and not biased

   Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels (Getting Real About Sex Addiction, An Analyst in Training), explores how psychoanalysis adapts itself to the framework of couples therapy despite its reputation as a theoretical model that is fundamentally unsuited to the treatment of couples according to some in pop psychology quarters.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

24

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

75

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