I think that psychodynamic psychotherapy is useful in its modern context. The focus on childhood problems staying into adulthood is centered on a real occurrence, in my opinion. Another facet of psychodynamic psychotherapy, transference, would be extremely useful to have competence in as a therapist. Transference is something that everyone has done. Thus, being aware of someone else’s transference towards you, and then expertly guiding them to understand and master that process is a valuable technique of psychodynamic psychotherapy that, in my opinion, is useful in any therapeutic context, psychodynamic or not.
Freud was a man of his time; the Victorian age viewed sex as taboo, and thought less of women. I think that Freud’s psychodynamic practice, in part, reflected both his allegiance to some of this zeitgeist (looking down on women for no real reason), and also his challenge of some of these norms (such as him viewing sex and animalistic impulses as central to understanding people, i.e. the unconscious id). The id, superego, and ego are laid out as too compartmentalized for my taste, as well. I like the modern definition of the three parts as ‘it’, ‘over-me’, and ‘me’ much better. This highlights the integrated-self more, and speaks to where modern psychodynamic …show more content…
There have been many modern psychoanalysts who have made progress on the original ‘blueprint’, and in my opinion have kept psychodynamic psychotherapy relevant, with something beneficial to offer (especially to depressed patients, as the textbook states). Therapy visits are, for the most part, no longer scheduled multiple times a week, as another example of the therapy’s evolution. In my opinion, a clinical graduate program would be best served (no matter it’s training orientation) by at least training students to master the therapy process regarding client
Freud was a man of his time; the Victorian age viewed sex as taboo, and thought less of women. I think that Freud’s psychodynamic practice, in part, reflected both his allegiance to some of this zeitgeist (looking down on women for no real reason), and also his challenge of some of these norms (such as him viewing sex and animalistic impulses as central to understanding people, i.e. the unconscious id). The id, superego, and ego are laid out as too compartmentalized for my taste, as well. I like the modern definition of the three parts as ‘it’, ‘over-me’, and ‘me’ much better. This highlights the integrated-self more, and speaks to where modern psychodynamic …show more content…
There have been many modern psychoanalysts who have made progress on the original ‘blueprint’, and in my opinion have kept psychodynamic psychotherapy relevant, with something beneficial to offer (especially to depressed patients, as the textbook states). Therapy visits are, for the most part, no longer scheduled multiple times a week, as another example of the therapy’s evolution. In my opinion, a clinical graduate program would be best served (no matter it’s training orientation) by at least training students to master the therapy process regarding client