Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy emphasizes the impact of early and present childhood development on the patient's personality and current life difficulties. It also emphasizes the importance of the therapeutic relationship between patient and psychotherapist in working through the patients' issues. The psychotherapist helps the patient to gain insight and self-understanding, thus enhancing conscious and unconscious awareness to elucidate pathologies.
Looking at dreams, free associations, and past and current relationships to significant people in the patient's life, the psychotherapist tries to understand the patient's behavior in an attempt to relieve symptoms and allow for positive life changes. The psychotherapist makes use of interpretation and analysis of the relationship between the patient and the psychotherapist (transference/counter-transference)
Who can benefit from psychodynamic psychotherapy?
• Children, adolescents and adults who are curious to explore their inner lives to relieve symptoms and better understand their relationship to significant people in their lives.
• Children, adolescents and adults who experience trauma, cancer, other chronic, potentially life threatening diseases, chronic pain, anxiety and depression.
• Children, adolescent and adults who have lost a loved one and need help in grief- mourning work.
