Psychoanalysis and Addiction

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

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

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

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.

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

Graeme Daniels, psychoanalyst and author, discusses his paper entitled "Treatment of a Recovering Alcoholic with Substitute Addictions", which won the 2025 Lee Jaffe prize as awarded by the American Psychoanalytic Association