Psychodynamics

Psychodynamics, also call as psychodynamic psychology, in its broadest sense, is an approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic analyse of the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions & how they might relate to early experience. this is the especially interested in the dynamic relations between conscious motivation and unconscious motivation.

The term psychodynamics is also used to refer specifically to the psychoanalytical approach developed by Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 and his followers. Freud was inspired by the conception of thermodynamics and used the term psychodynamics to describe the processes of the mind as flows of psychological energy libido or psi in an organically complex brain.

There are four major schools of thought regarding psychological treatment: psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, biological, and humanistic treatment. In the treatment of psychological distress, psychodynamic psychotherapy tends to be a less intensive once- or twice-weekly modality than the classical Freudian psychoanalysis treatment of 3–5 sessions per week. Psychodynamic therapies depend upon a idea of inner conflict, wherein repressed behaviours and emotions surface into the patient's consciousness; generally, one's clash is unconscious.

Overview

In general, psychodynamics is the explore of the interrelationship of various parts of the personality, or psyche as they relate to mental, emotional, or motivational forces particularly at the unconscious level. The mental forces involved in psychodynamics are often divided up into two parts: a the interaction of the emotional and motivational forces that impact behavior and mental states, especially on a subconscious level; b inner forces affecting behavior: the study of the emotional and motivational forces that affect behavior and states of mind.

Freud gave that psychological energy was fixed hence, emotional adjust consisted only in displacements and that it tended to rest point attractor through discharge catharsis.

In mate selection psychology, psychodynamics is defined as the study of the forces, motives, and power to direct or introducing generated by the deepest of human needs.

In general, psychodynamics studies the transformations and exchanges of "psychic energy" within the personality. A focus in psychodynamics is the association between the energetics of emotional states in the Id, ego and super-ego as they relate to early childhood developments and processes. At the heart of psychological processes, according to Freud, is the ego, which he envisions as battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the external world. The id is the unconscious reservoir of libido, the psychic power to direct or establish that fuels instincts and psychic processes. The ego serves as the general manager of personality, making decisions regarding the pleasures that will be pursued at the id's demand, the person's safety requirements, and the moral dictates of the superego that will be followed. The superego returned to the repository of an individual's moral values, dual-lane into the conscience – the internalization of a society's rules and regulations – and the ego-ideal – the internalization of one's goals. Hence, the basic psychodynamic model focuses on the dynamic interactions between the id, ego, and superego. Psychodynamics, subsequently, attempts to explain or interpret behaviour or mental states in terms of innate emotional forces or processes.