A play upon this podcast's former title, "Getting Real" 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

In this episode, psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels talks about masochism, surrender and submission, weaving in theories of Freud, Klein, and Winnicott with reflections upon addiction, BDSM, repetition compulsion, even rape--all relating to a paper by Emmanuel Ghent from the nineties, plus the fifty year anniversary of a famous shark film

Getting Real About Psychoanalysis

Getting Real About Psychoanalysis (2): Submission, surrender, masochism, and being eaten

Psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels begins his newly re-configured podcast series with a review of a paper by Israeli psychiatrist/analyst Amit Saad: a paper about time arrows, the timelessness of the unconscious, causal loops, the Oedipal myth and Oedipal development, and what Saad describes as the "sexualizing of asymmetric time"

Getting Real About Psychoanalysis: Sexualizing Asymmetric Time

Psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels, lead author of Getting Real About Sex Addiction, a Bloomsbury/Rowman & Littlefield publication, discusses the fraught cottage industry of personality disorder and addiction treatment training, lambasting in particular certificate programs that are reductive of complex phenomena

Getting Real About Sex Addiction

Getting Real About Sex Addiction (bonus): Training and personality disorder, addiction, and...do I just hit pillows?

Psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels, lead author of the book Getting Real About Sex Addiction (published by Rowman & Littlefield), excoriates the California Superior Court, which has once again delayed its trial of AB 1775, a 2015 law that amended now forty five year old child abuse laws to oblige psychotherapists to violate the confidentiality of patients who report viewing sexual material that depicts minors. Daniels paraphrases the case brief from the case plaintiffs that lays out the reasons this law should be ruled unconstitutional and overturned. The state is procrastinating!<a href='https://weddingwednesdaypod.com' target='_blank'>Wedding Wednesday Pod</a> We're spilling ALL the tea on wedding drama, horror stories & the craziness of planning! Listen on: <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedding-wednesday-pod/id1794582412' target='_blank'>Apple Podcasts</a>   <a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/6kGft9kgM5Yr4333qBVJkY?si=TAtUVelBQZOosaeTDLOQrg' target='_blank'>Spotify</a>

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