3. Psychodynamic
counseling focused
on anxiety-related
hysteria, disorders,
depression, neuroses,
marital conflicts etc.

4. AIMS
To help clients to achieve
insight & understanding around
the reason for their problem .
To translate this insight into a
mature capacity to cope with
any future difficulties

5. Psychodynamics,
----also known as dynamic psychology,
in its broadest sense, is an approach to
psychology that emphasizes
systematic study of the psychological
forces that underlie human behavior,
feelings, and emotions and how they
might relate to early experience. It is
especially interested in the dynamic
relations between conscious
motivation and unconscious
motivation.

6. The term psychodynamics is also used
by some to refer specifically to the
psychoanalytical approach developed
by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) and his
followers. Freud was inspired by the
theory of thermodynamics and used the
term psychodynamics to describe the
processes of the mind as flows of
psychological energy (libido) in an
organically complex brain.

7. The emphasis is on the role
of the unconscious mind,
the structure of personality
and the influence that
childhood experiences have
on later life.

8. Freud proposed that the mind is subdivided
into different levels of conscious awareness.
(1) Conscious: thoughts and perceptions
(2) Preconscious: available to
consciousness, e.g. memories and stored
knowledge
(3) Unconscious: wishes and desires
formed in childhood determines most behavior

9. Contains
information that
we are aware of
and have easy
access to.
Holds on to
information
easily retrievable
Holds all the
information
that the
conscious
cannot deal
with.
Levels of Consciousness: Iceberg theory

10. 1. id: unconscious; urges
needing instant gratification
2. ego: develops in childhood;
rational; chooses between id
and external demands
3. superego: conscience,
places restrictions on behavior.

12. Stages of Development
Infantile Period
Latent Period
Adolescent Period

13. INFANTILE PERIOD
FIRST STAGE- (Auto-Erotic Stage)
Auto-Erotic Stage—refers to
pleasurable bodily sensations.
Oral- Erotic Stage
Anal-Erotic Stage
Genital/Phallic Erotic Stage

14.  About first 12-18 months of life
 Infants seek & gain pleasure from the mouth
 Focus: sucking, biting, chewing etc.
 Fixation causes - Nail biters, pencil
chewers, thumb suckers, chain smokers etc.

15.  Approx. 18 months to three years of age
 Fascination with bodily function.
 Focus : Anal region, eliminating & retaining
feces
 Fixation causes due to inappropriate
Toilet-training
› “Anal retentive” – obsessed with tidiness
› “Anal expulsive” – messy & disorganized

17.  Puberty to Adulthood
 Sexual desires come back to the fore
front.
 Successful development in the
earlier stage leads to mature
sexuality,, marriage & the birth
&rearing of children.

18. Narcissism is a personality disorder in which a
person is excessively preoccupied with
personal adequacy, power, prestige and
vanity, mentally unable to see the
destructive damage they are causing to
themselves and to others in the process

20. When the sex drive is directed to
one or more external love
objects. The child first chooses
companions of his own sex and
later sex becomes more specific
and leads to heterosexual
relationship and the
reproduction of life.

21.  Approx. 6-12 yrs of age.
 Focuses on spending time with people of the
same sex.
 Sexual instincts die down & superego
develops.
 Child acquire new social values from adult,
outside the family & play from peer.

23. Which lasts until
the individual is
out of his teens.

24. Transference
Free Association
Dream Analysis
Interpretation
Others

25.  Client’s feelings are directed toward
the therapist as though the therapist
were the source of the feelings
instead of someone from the client’s
past.
 Therapist as a blank screen
 To become aware of this projection.

27.  Dream is wish fulfillment & have 2 component.
 Manifest Content- Incorporates traces of previous
days’ experiences and preoccupations.
 Latent Content- Censored symbolic version-consists
of unconscious drives and wishes that may be
threatening if expressed directly.

28.  To generate meaning from
transference, free association,
dreams etc.
 Issues while making interpretation-
 Is the timing right?
 Is the interpretation correct?
 Can the interpretation be phrased in
such a way that the client will
understand it?

30. Aniyah Alexander Saidar-
Dimakuta