Developed by: Psychodynamic has too many developers and innovators to name here. Early originators include: Ernst von Brucke, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn, D.W. Winnicott, Harry Guntrip, Heinz Kohut, John Bowlby, Anna Freud, Karen Horney, Erik Erikson, and Erich Fromm
Overview: Psychodynamic and insight therapies aim to help clients become aware of and experience their vulnerable feelings which have been pushed out of conscious awareness. The Psychodynamic approach holds everyone has an unconscious which holds and harbors painful and vulnerable feelings which are too difficult for the person to be consciously aware of. In order to keep painful feelings, memories, and experiences, in the unconscious, people tend to develop defense mechanisms, such as denial, repression, rationalization, and others. According to Psychodynamic theory, these defenses cause more harm than good and that once the vulnerable or painful feelings are processed the defense mechanisms reduce or resolve.
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