psychodynamic
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Of an approach to psychology that emphasizes the systematic study of psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions, as well as how these might relate to early experience.
(adjective)
Relating to the approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how these might be related to early experiences.
(adjective)
An approach to psychology that emphasizes the systematic study of the unconscious psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how these might relate to early experience.
(adjective)
An approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions, and how they might relate to early experience.
Examples of psychodynamic in the following topics:
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- The primary focus of psychodynamic therapy is to uncover the unconscious content of a client's psyche in order to alleviate psychic tension.
- Psychodynamic theory emphasizes the systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior.
- All psychodynamic therapies have a core set of characteristics:
- By the mid-1940s and into the 1950s, the general application of the "psychodynamic theory" had been well established.
- Psychodynamic therapy, in contrast, is still commonly used today.
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- The psychodynamic approach to the study of personality has many historical advantages but also many recently-discovered limitations.
- Psychodynamic theory approaches human personality by focusing on psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feeling, and emotion.
- The theory of psychodynamics is often used to refer specifically to the psychoanalytic theory proposed by Sigmund Freud and his followers.
- The psychodynamic model states that psychological disorders stemmed from maladaptive defenses against unconscious, internal conflicts.
- Based on patients' feedback, including stories from their childhood and interpretation of their dreams, Freud developed his psychodynamic theory of psychology and his psychoanalytic theory of personality.
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- Psychodynamic theory studies the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions.
- Psychodynamic theory is an approach to psychology that studies the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions, and how they may relate to early childhood experience.
- Psychodynamic theory was born in 1874 with the works of German scientist Ernst von Brucke, who supposed that all living organisms are energy systems governed by the principle of the conservation of energy.
- By the mid-1940s and into the 1950s, the general application of the "psychodynamic theory" had been well established.
- At present, psychodynamics is an evolving multidisciplinary field that analyzes and studies human thought processes, response patterns, and influences.
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- Personality has been studied for over 2000 years, beginning with Hippocrates in 370 BCE and spanning through modern theories such as the psychodynamic perspective and trait theory.
- The major theories include the psychodynamic, neo-Freudian, learning (or behaviorist), humanistic, biological, trait (or dispositional), and cultural perspectives.
- Psychodynamic theory, originating with Sigmund Freud, posits that human behavior is the result of the interaction among various components of the mind (the id, ego, and superego) and that personality develops according to a series of psychosexual developmental stages.
- Sigmund Freud advanced a psychodynamic view of human personality that implicated the id, ego, and superego as the main determinants of individual differences in personality.
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- These were all later categorized as psychodynamic, meaning any approach that focused on the psyche's conscious and unconscious influences on the self and external relationships.
- Although its roots are in psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy tends to be briefer and less intensive than traditional psychoanalysis.
- Anxious and depressed patients in two short-term therapies (solution-focused and brief psychodynamic) improved faster, but after five years, long-term psychotherapy and psychoanalysis gave greater benefits.
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- Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist whose psychodynamic theory holds that personality is formed through early childhood experiences.
- In contrast to the psychodynamic approaches, the learning approaches to personality focus only on observable behavior.
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- Alfred Adler was the first to explore and develop a comprehensive social theory of the psychodynamic person.
- Horney was also influential in the advancement of feminism within the field of psychodynamics.
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- Some meta-analyses find CBT more effective than psychodynamic therapy and equal to other therapies in treating anxiety and depression.
- However, psychodynamic therapy may provide better long-term outcomes.