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Psychodynamic Frames Of Psychodynamic Therapy

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Since adulthood, the structure of the development of personality current is observed under the terms of whether he or she passed with success the different psychosexual stages of childhood, youth and adulthood. Different mental illnesses are the result of a failure in the progression through the early childhood development (for example, - caught up in the “annals “of the stage), which in turn, translate into problems with the balance of the structure of the personality (the ego, the superego and the id). Some of the unconscious reasons for the majority of human behavior are sex and aggression. (Herkov, M. G. (2013, January 30). For example, perhaps the superego is much stronger than it should be and the ego is unable to always counteract its demands for …show more content…

The "frame" of therapy exists in all theoretical orientations. The frame is the therapeutic setting and boundaries, such as the meeting time, length of time of each session, how payment is handled, how much self-disclosure the therapist makes, etc. Anything that disrupts this "frame" can be interpretable by some dynamic therapists (and most psychoanalytic therapists). Since the basis of psychodynamic therapy is transference (where the patient projects his or her feelings about another person in their lives), the frame is more important here. It means that the patient might be engaging in some sort of transference that needs to be examined by the therapist and interpret, if necessary. Interpretations are what psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapists do best (next to listening). Interpretations are offering a reason or explanation to the patient about that person's behaviors, thoughts, or feelings. If an interpretation is done right, it leads to the patient's "insight," where the patient now understand the unconscious motivation that was making that person act, react, feel, or think in a certain

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