PYCHO-DYNAMIC APPROACH

Psychodynamic Approach Assumptions

* Our behaviour and feelings are powerfully affected by unconscious motives.

* Our behaviour and feelings as adults including psychological problems are rooted in our childhood experiences.

* All behaviour has a cause usually unconscious, even slips of the tongue. Therefore all behaviour is determined.

* Personality is made up of three parts  tripartite. The id, ego and super-ego.

* Behaviour is motivated by two instinctual drives: Eros the sex drive & life instinct and Thanatos. Both these drives come from the “id”.

* Parts of the unconscious mind the id and superego are in constant conflict with the conscious part of the mind the ego.

* Personality is shaped as the drives are modified by different conflicts at different times in childhood during psychosexual development.

Psychodynamics is the systematic study and theory of the psychological forces that underline human behavior, emphasizing the interplay between unconscious and conscious motivation

The original concept of "psychodynamics" was developed by Freud suggested that psychological processes are flows of psychological energy in a complex brain, establishing "psychodynamics" on the basis of psychological energy, which he referred to as libido.

The psychodynamic psychotherapy is a less intensive form compared to classical psychoanalysis practiced by strict Freudians, demanding sessions only once weekly instead of 3-5 times weekly which was typical for traditional psychoanalysts.

Psychodynamic therapies depend on a theory of inner conflicts which surface in behaviour or emotions. Generally, one conflict is subconscious.