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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"psychodynamic"”.
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Using psychodynamic theories in management training: understanding the experiences of managers attending a training event which includes psychodynamic theories
… in training workshops which included psychodynamic theories and ideas as applied to individuals and groups. This included the notion of the unconscious life of groups, and in particular, Bion’s theory of groups, the nature of unconscious defences and the tendency to take up certain …
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The written psychodynamic formulation in a Jungian framework
… has been under-emphasized. Following this, the psychodynamic formulation is situated in the context of clinical psychology in order to show its relationship to the diagnostic and assessment context of clinical work. The second part is to attempt to partly fill the gap in the Jungian literature …
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Assessment of children for brief psychodynamic psychotherapy : training implications
… for the assessment of children for short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, with a particular emphasis on the training of child therapists. For this purpose the literature on brief child psychotherapy is reviewed, and selection criteria mentioned in the literature are collated and summarized. …
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The psychodynamic psychotherapy of a male transvestite : a case study
… study provides a description of selected core psychodynamic issues pertinent to a male transvestite patient. Case material from an ongoing 11 month psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy is used for illustrative purposes. The theoretical roles of the 'core complex', castration anxiety; …
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A psychodynamic view of male homosexuality : oedipal and pre-oedipal
For many years psychodynamically oriented research into homosexuality has been a topic for controversy. The "gay" community as well as many more sociologically oriented researchers see any investigation of the psychodynamics of this orientation as implying pathology and therefore contributing to …
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The Experience of Illuminating Organisational Culture from a Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
… myself as a consultant when providing systems-psychodynamic cultural feedback, I set out to investigate the experience of illuminating the unconscious elements of organisational culture, both for organisational leaders, and for the researcher. Taking a single case study approach, within the …
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Meeting Needs with Therapy: Refugee and Therapist Experiences of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
… of the resources available to them in the UKis psychodynamic psychotherapy. This study was the first of its kind to explore the experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy from the perspective of refugee and asylum seeker clients, and therapists working with those populations. Using a qualitative …
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A psychodynamic understanding of trauma and adolescence : a case study exploration
… to other family members. In this respect a psychodynamic approach is shown as a useful way to explore the emotional features after trauma, such as loss, guilt and difficulties with trust, intimacy and safety. This approach highlights the subjective experience of unexpected violence-induced …
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Workplace Friendship and Anxiety: Organisational Insight through the Psychodynamic Exploration of Interpersonal Relations
… mechanisms (Klein, 1946) in combination with psychodynamic views of organisations to corroborate my empirical data. This thesis offers new insights into the unconscious side of workplace friendship relations and in doing so, it uncovers the organisational manipulation and control of …
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Effects of stimulating unconscious fantasies of oneness using the subliminal psychodynamic activation method
The subliminal psychodynamic activation (SPA) method, which was developed to test psychodynamic theories, remains highly controversial due, in part, to the counterintuitive nature of its results. Numerous concerns over experimental methodology also make it difficult to evaluate whether the method …
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The constellation of the archetypal feminine : a psychic process essential to psychodynamic psychotherapy
… to explore and demonstrate the necessity for a psychodynamic psychotherapy which embodies and thus evokes the qualities of the Archetypal Feminine. C.G. Jung's concept of the coniunctio, or union of psychic opposites, forms the central theoretical premise on which the study is based. It is with …
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Between surfaces: a psychodynamic approach to cultural identity, cultural difference and reconciliation in Australia
… through language games and hegemonic discourses. Psychodynamic theories of identity formation have been applied to the analysis of these cases to argue that the unconscious construction of Australia as a good, white and Christian nation has acted to overwrite Aboriginal perspectives and to …
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Clients' Experience of Effective Psychoanalytic-Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Major Depression: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
Although there is sufficient evidence that psychodynamic therapy for depression is effective, there is no research documenting the qualities of experience in effective psychodynamic therapy for depression. To address this lack, this study aimed to investigate clients' experiences of both the …
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Teach them how to say goodbye: student therapist termination at a psychodynamic training clinic
… with a sample of 11 student therapists at a psychodynamic training clinic, this study explored experiences of termination and the preparation for those endings. Qualitative thematic analysis indicated that this group of student therapists did not experience shared and structured termination …
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"The baby will grow" : a poststructuralist and psychodynamic analysis of a community psychology intervention
Progressive South African psychologists have recognised the need for community approaches in South Africa which maximise access to psychological intervention and which value politically aware psychological practice. Few extended analyses of such interventions exist in the literature, and community …
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Negotiating Boundaries from Within: A Feminist-Psychodynamic Investigation of Bulimia and Emotional Expression in Context
… turn shape the intra-psychic and interpersonal psychodynamics of bulimic women.</p><p> This multifarious approach towards understanding the construction of bulimic subjectivity necessitated that the present study use a layered, interpretive methodology. Empirical data, gathered through …
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