Dynamic Therapy is more efficient and time feasible, it has its roots in psychoanalytic theory and it has been clinically applied to a wide range of psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression.
The essence of dynamic psychotherapy is exploring your current conflicts and relationships to understand how it is related to your past. It involves the search for receiving patterns and a focus on the therapeutic relationship to see how your conflicts are repeated.
The treatment challenges the therapist to be warm and empathic in understanding the patient’s feelings, but to keep cool as the relationship deepens and old patterns are replayed.
A deep treatment is one that embraces fundamental problems and essential solutions. It aims to reshape you as an individual in some profound way and gets close to the idea of cure. The therapy facilitates you to rewrite of your life narrative, your picture of yourself, your past, present and future.
The essential futures of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in current practice are:
- Use of exploratory, interpretative and supportive interventions as appropriate;
- Frequent sessions;
- Emphasis on uncovering painful effects, understanding past painful experiences;
- Goal is to facilitate emotional experience and increase understanding;
- Focus on the therapeutic relationship, including attention to transference and countertransference;
- Use of a wide range of techniques, with variability in application by different practitioners.
That is only a brief introduction about the theme. There is a wide range of material and authors talking about the Practice of Psychodynamic Approach. We hope that this helped you understand more about this type of Therapy.
Reference:
SUMMERS, R.F and BARBER, J. P (2010). Psychodynamic Therapy. A Guide to evidence-based Practice. Gilford Press