Psychodynamic Approaches And The Psychodynamic Approach

Max is a 25-year-old African American male who suffers from Opioid Use Disorder, Severe. Max was raised by his mother while his father remained in prison for distribution of Methamphetamine. Max started using at the young age of 13. He has moved around a lot as a child since his mother could not find work in her rural communities. Max has always had a hard time making friends and getting to know people for fear of getting close to people and having to move. Max has started to experience some problems due to his usage and has ended up in residential treatment. Max is unable to full fill his role as a father, son, and husband. He cannot hold a job and has caught his first criminal charge of possession. He is seeking help because the court has

The psychodynamic approach focuses on individuals who behave in a certain way due to having emotional feelings buried deep inside their unconscious mind. The theory was developed by Sigmund Freud who was a psychologist. The use of the psychodynamic approach within health and social care helps individuals understand and support patients who are undergoing the psychodynamic process as it is generally used around the world. This essay aims to show my understanding of the approach and the ways health and social care workers could apply the theory to a health and social care setting. By explaining what psychodynamic counselling is and how it helps individuals it shows how I am able to identify the solutions to the problems.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PP) rooted from traditional psychoanalysis theories. PP operates with the basic assumption that focuses on unconscious processes that recognise how a person’s behaviour and feelings in the present are rooted from childhood experience in the past. The objective of PP is to facilitate client to reach self-awareness and to have a better understanding of the problems by identifying where the origin of the issue as well as underlying causes that may be present. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy places heavy emphasis on client’s relationships and interpersonal experience (Shedler, 2010).

The choice of therapeutic approach is critical to the effectiveness of any therapeutic plan. In some cases, a particular approach has become a universal standard: such as cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of phobias. More often, there is a range of potentially suitable approaches. Numerous factors constrain the possibilities: the nature of the presenting problem or psychological issue, the client’s level of commitment to change, whether the client is an individual, family, or group are all factors. Practical considerations are also relevant: the cost of treatment and limits of insurance coverage, the duration of sessions and total length of treatment, and legal or institutional constraints. The client’s preference is also extremely

First, I believe the object relations theory places less importance on biologically based drives and

Psychodynamic theories may vary in their individual descriptions of intrapsychic and psychosocial processes and forces, but most follow concepts from Freudian psycho-analysis. There are five main key concepts regarding the psychodynamic theory. The first, the importance of early childhood experiences in personality development. Second, the existence of unconscious and preconscious motivation, unconscious is the part of the mind that holds ideas, thoughts, and memories that we cannot access and bring into our conscious awareness (Canda, Chatterjee, and Robbins, 2012). In contrast, preconscious holds ideas, thoughts, and memories that we are not currently thinking of, but if we concentrate, we can bring those to our conscious part of mind (Canda,

In my opinion, the psychodynamic theory makes most sense because it gives the background of sexual drive as far as the id, ego, and superego. Freud came up with a theory which explained the desire to want to do something and having balance. With this theory, most child molesters use their id and not their ego. They think about their wants and needs and not what is morally right. Also, cognitive distortion makes sense too because it breaks down the thoughts of a child molester. According to the research, molesters think if a person did not resist, then they wanted it and a lot of sexual offenders think like that by taking it as consent sex when it is not. For example, if a child just lays there and do not say stop they think the child must want

Deciding what theory to conceptualize things during supervision was hard because I had a hard time reminding myself that they weren’t my clients. My theory of choice has always been CBT and as such, I have chosen the same one for supervision. At first, I felt lost and found myself not knowing what to say, which reminded me of my first couple of sessions before I had decided on my theory. I honestly didn’t know that supervisors worked from a theory I assumed that was only during therapy with clients. I remember asking one of my supervisors about this topic several years ago and she stated that she works from an eclectic perspective during supervision. However, she did have a chosen theory when working with clients. I came in with a certain mentality,

The psychodynamic theory holds the view that childhood experiences shape personality. While according to American Psychological Association (2018) describe Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders and severe mental illness. The psychodynamic theory takes into translation both nature and nurture, in any case, the cognitive theory has fizzled to recognize the impact of nature and nurture. Sigmund Freud claimed that adult identify is the item of innate drives (nature) and childhood encounter (nurture).

The principle of order explains that if there is an action then there will either be a reaction or consequence based on the results that we are expecting. In order to get effective outcomes when working with families, children, and individuals I would have to consistently seek information to ensure that I was giving them correct strategies and techniques to improve their family structure. The principle of empathy expresses the need to understand certain situations form other’s perspectives in order to understand their reactions, emotions, and behaviors. This act will ensure that I am actually understanding the reason behind the behavior based on the client/person instead of in my own opinion.

The psychodynamic approach on the study of human behaviour is based around the work of Sigmund Freud.

In any film, there is always a deep mental process through the behavior of its characters. Why they do the things they do and how to give a detailed explanation on their behavior. The Imitation Game shows many examples of psychology perspectives to analyze and break down.

Jones and Butman (2012) view psychoanalysis as the forerunner of all psychotherapeutic methods. Freudian psychoanalysis theorizes that all human behavior is influenced by early childhood experiences. Freud argues that human behavior is mostly unconscious and driven by conflicting desires, feelings, fears, and motives. The goal of psychoanalysis is to resolve intrapsychic conflict by bringing into conscious awareness the unconscious desires and motives of an individual. Through free association, the unconscious is made conscious, and unresolved conflict or anxiety is resolved. Psychoanalysis also seeks to challenge self-defeating coping methods or defense mechanisms and aims to replace the negative coping methods with more effective coping mechanism (Jones & Butman, 2012)

Psychodynamic or psychoanalysis is a theory that is based on the personality. Psychodynamic therapy is the focus of unconscious processes as they are manifested in the clients’ present behaviour. Self awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on ones present behaviour is the goal of psychodynamic therapy. Psychodynamic therapy operates with the tool of dialogue in order to expose and explore unconscious conflicts for the purpose of allowing their processing and integration. The fundamental rules for intervention in psychodynamic hypnotherapy are the same in other psychodynamic therapy (Wormnes, et al., 2000).

Psychoanalysis has many concepts that are complex for the lay reader to grasp instantaneously. To understand what working through it, some background information is considered necessary. This section introduces the relevant terminology and concepts.