AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Modern psychodynamic therapy places more emphasis on collaborative conversation between therapist and client, in which you work together to gain understanding into your past experiences, relationships, and emotions and how they relate to your behavior and feelings in the present day.

Detailed explanation-2: -Psychodynamic models include object-relations, transference-focused (early attachment), self-psychology, and family systems. This is why we prefer to call it ‘contemporary psychodynamic’ approaches. In fact, approaches such as CBT, DBT and EFT include ideas based on psychodynamic principles.

Detailed explanation-3: -While psychoanalysis is concerned with the unconscious and dreams, psychodynamics is concerned with the human personality and mind as well. In addition to psychoanalysis, psychodynamics examines the effects of the outside world on the individual and current life problems.

Detailed explanation-4: -Psychodynamic therapy focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. Its hallmarks are self-reflection and self-examination, and the use of the relationship between therapist and patient as a window into problematic relationship patterns in the patient’s life.