Articles about Psychodynamic

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...

Generally, one of the main difficulties that can be encountered in the work of an analytical psychotherapist is related to the above question. How can a person have feeli...

The cultural mood in the modern Western world encourages rapid and superficial complexity at the expense of depth. This makes real change a challenging process.

From its beginnings, psychoanalysis and psycho-dynamic approaches have been criticized as unscientific, and their imminent demise predicted. Yet they have persisted...

Whenever I tell people I meet that I’m a psychiatrist, many will joke, “Oh, I bet you’re analyzing me right now!” Of course, I wasn’t, until they said that.

The Oedipus complex from an Indian perspective