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
Allen and Schuur committed to delivering the same pleasures of the original — the radical intimacy, the hyper articulacy, the intense focus on the psychodynamics of two people in a nice room.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2021
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
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
There's a wait-and-see attitude toward everything, including the sciences and particularly the new half-finished science of psychodynamics.
From The Sensitive Man by Poul William Anderson
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