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Psychodynamic therapy: A type of psychotherapy that draws on psychoanalytic theory to help people understand the roots of emotional distress, often by exploring unconscious motives, needs, and defenses. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a form of depth psychology, the primary focus of which is to reveal the unconscious content of a client’s psyche in an effort to alleviate psychic tension. In this way, it is similar to psychoanalysis. It also relies on the interpersonal relation...Continue reading

The Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Which approach is right for me? Whether you are seeking mental health treatment or training to become a mental health provider, you will encounter many different approaches to therapy. It can be confusing to tell the difference between them and to figure out which one is right for you. So, in this post, I’d like to address the question: what is the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis?...Continue reading

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John Mcleod, author of An Introduction to Counselling, has identified five key principles of the psychodynamic approach: People have troubled relationships because they are repeating a destructive relationship pattern from the past. The person may seek to control or hide difficult or unacceptable mental desires, memories and feelings by use of ‘defence mechanisms’, such as transference, projection, denial, repression, sublimation, splitting and projective identif...ication. It is important for helpers, including counsellors, to be aware of their own feelings, fantasies and impulses in relation to the person they are helping (Countertransference). The person’s problems can be understood as representing unresolved developmental tasks (e.g. separation from the mother/parents). People have a need for secure, consistent emotional attachments.