Psychodynamic Counselling is a general name for therapeutic approaches which try to get the patient to bring to the surface their factual feelings, so that they can experience them and understand them. Like Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy uses the basic supposition that everyone has a comatose mind (this is sometimes called the subconscious), and that feelings held in the unconscious mind are often too sore to be faced. Thus we come up with defenses to protect us knowing about these painful feelings. Psychodynamic Counselling assumes that these defenses have gone wrong and are causing more harm than good that is why you have required seeking help. It tries to untie them, as once again, it is assumed that once you are conscious of what is really going on in your mind the feelings will not be as painful.
Psychodynamics takes the loom that our pasts effects our presents. Those who forget the past are fated to repeat it, and this is the same for an individual. Though we may suppress our very early experiences (thus we don't remember them) the theory is that the "ID" never forgets the experiences. If a child was always content with sweets we may not know why we reach for the tub of ice cream whenever we are unhappy and we want cheering up. Psychodynamic Counselling is taught many theories of child development (Oral stage, anal stage, latency period etc). The theory here is that if an adult has not properly progressed through all the child growth stages, the therapist may recognize the particular stages that are missing.
In Which Situation You May Require Psychodynamic Counselling
Psychodynamic Counselling may help you with a wide variety of emotional difficulties, some examples are listed below: -
* Depression
* Lack of confidence or self esteem
* Sexual, emotional or physical abuse
* Trauma, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
* Terminal illness
* Bereavement and Loss
* pressure at work
* Your relationships
* Panic attacks and phobias
* Anger and rage
* Sexuality, & Sexual Identity
* Living with a life threatening illness
* HIV / AIDS
* joblessness, redundancy
Psychodynamic Counselling skills and theory can be valuable in many working and social environments. The insight and considerate about human functions gained from psychoanalytic theory, can improve the life of the customer, and can be put to a variety of good uses.