Psychodynamic therapy question?
I’m due to start with a new therapist in June and unlike my present therapist she uses a psychodynamic approach. I have read about this approach, however the information i have come across seems to target students. I am now well educated in Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung but am still none the wiser when it comes to knowing what to expect.
Can anyone please give me the basics of what to expect in layman’s teams. Thank you
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May 25th, 2010 at 6:19 am
Psychodynamic therapy’s main goal is to look at the events in your childhood that may have triggered your current problems and reconstruct those events so that you can deal with them. Psychodynamic therapy has been proven to be highly effective since it works from the past forward. You can expect it to be a longer process than that of Cognitive behavioral or behavioral because it does not just target the undesired behavior, but the triggers behind it. There is a vast focus on the past and the unconscious. You might try googling brief psychodynamic therapy as that is the more modern method of Freud’s original "psychoanalysis". Talk to your new therapist about what you can expect-they are required to give you all that informationg in the first meeting.