psychodynamics
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any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
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the aggregate of motivational forces, both conscious and unconscious, that determine human behavior and attitudes.
Mythologists see the myths as having developed through the psychodynamics of the human social psyche.
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In my psychotherapy practice of 30-plus years, I have not seen such a common theme of existential anxiety created not by individual psychodynamics but by profound fear about the state of the Earth.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
Written and directed by Prentice Penny, “Uncorked” bears whiffs of such predecessors as “Sideways” and “The Paper Chase,” with undernotes of “East of Eden” in familial psychodynamics.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020
In its anatomizing of the psychodynamics of the rehearsal room, the play bears a resemblance to David Ives’s “Venus in Fur.”
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2015
He was moved not by the political promise of the era, but by the psychodynamics of an age when men and women put themselves, rather than their obligations, first.
From Slate • May 19, 2015
It is here that the psychodynamics of humanity - the tectonic clash between Rome and Byzantium, West and East, Judeo-Christianity and Islam - is still easily discernible.
From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Vaknin, Samuel
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