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The terms “dynamic psychotherapy” and “psychodynamic psychotherapy” have been used interchangeably with “psychoanalytic psychotherapy” or “psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. ” Freud borrowed the term “psychodynamic” from physics, where “dynamic” refers to the interaction of forces as in thermodynamics or aerodynamics and conveys the idea of an interplay of forces in the mind, particularly conflicting forces.1 In fact, Kris (1947), an influential psychoanalytic theorist, defined psychoanalysis as that discipline that views behavior from the perspective of inner conflict. Thus, one of the basic questions a traditional psychodynamic therapist would consider in clinical situations would be, With which inner core conflict is this patient struggling?
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Wolitzky, D.L., Eagle, M., Luborsky, L. (2001). Dynamic Psychotherapy. In: Hersen, M., Van Hasselt, V.B. (eds) Advanced Abnormal Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8497-5_25
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