Articles about Psychodynamic

Behind our fear of intimacy, we may live out a fantasy bond as a substitute for a loving relationship.

Psychoanalysis has fallen on hard times but psychoanalysis is changing.

Punishment, violence and abuse are about power – who is big and who is not. Who receives and who perpetrates violence. We cannot speak about power in South Africa without...

The refusal of twoness through sexual addiction.

A woman, struggling with a divorce from her husband, is offered a well-known folktale to assist with her existential crisis.

...my therapist said. The words shook me to the core and I began to sob uncontrollably.

How different theories understand the concept of mind.

An in-depth interview with Paul Renn, coordinated by Dr Jan Hepburn, exploring attachment theory and patterns, violent relationships, ordinary relationships, the patterns...

An intersubjective psychodynamic model uses the therapeutic relationship to facilitate relational and neurological changes in patients with trauma histories.

A parent who seeks care and emotional security from a child, inverting the child-parent relationship, is likely to generate attachment disorder in the child.

Are our best intentions and efforts to be helpful driven by less flattering hidden motivations?

A psychoanalytic psychologist reports her impressions while continuing to work with patients during her first week of quarantine.