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noun

any approach to psychology that emphasizes drives and motives as determinants of behavior.

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I invite you to reflect on the actual power dynamic between Christians and LGBT people in our society.
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Nowhere is this new family dynamic more apparent than around the holidays.
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What is much more important than these numbers is an internal dynamic for which there are no statistics.
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Ambassador Shirley Temple Black attributed this to the “deeply risk-averse psychology of the Czech people.”
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Abner stiffened, grew tense, as one becomes at the moment of bursting into dynamic action, but he did not stir.
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But a man cannot afford to ponder such problems in feminine psychology too closely if he has anything else to do!
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The social regulations from the viewpoint of individual psychology.
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One was an irruptive craving within him to take some part in the dynamic activities of the surrounding world.
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British Dictionary definitions for dynamic psychology

dynamic psychology

noun

psychol any system of psychology that emphasizes the interaction between different motives, emotions, and drives

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