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ellion

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Why we need psychodynamic counseling?
« on: June 15, 2008, 12:37:22 PM »
We need psychodynamic counselling to help a person make sense of current situations.It helps to start making sense of feelings and thoughts evoked by the situations; of memories associated with present experience, some of which spring readily to mind.As the counselling develops,a person conciousness rises by which he start differentiating the images that appear in fantasies and dreams .

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Re: Why we need psychodynamic counseling?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2008, 06:39:05 PM »
We are unaware of many of our motives and that if these are known to us we are able to make better, less conflicted choices. However, we are often resistant to or defended against recognising these hidden motives which are often termed unconscious by most psychodynamic theorists, and hence are unable to change - indeed we seem to have a compulsion to repeat past behaviour. These repetitions are thought to arise because of earlier experience where our behaviour successfully enabled us to cope by ignoring or repressing difficult feelings. Psychodynamic counselling thus has theory of why we are unable to change, how this inability arises, and how it affects our lives.

 

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