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Dynamic Psychotherapy

 

Began with Freud. Important concepts include:

mind is divided into ego (conscious), superego (conscious and unconscious) and id (unconscious). The id contains powerful drives such as aggression and libido

the unconscious

how it works

premise is that we are always working towards emotional homeostasis. Feeling angry with a parent will be balanced with the need/desire that goes along with this, leading towards unconscious conflict.

 

want patient's to transfer their previous thoughts onto the therapist, such that it can be seen, brought up in adulthood, and then addressed

 

create the freedom to allow unconscious thoughts and impulses to come out into the conscious such that they can resolve. Sometimes people can't process things as a children; wait until adulthood to bring it up.

you want to reflect back to patients that a portion of their present feeling is from the past.

psychic determininsm

past is prologue

transference

counter-transference

resistance

force within psyche that fights against change

can be conscious or unconscious

can appear as non-adherence, or more sublty (showing up late, etc)