THERAPY APPROACH
PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, also known as insight oriented, or depth psychology, is the oldest of the modern therapies. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy encourages exploration and discussion of the full range of our emotions and helps us to describe and put words to feelings, including contradictory feelings, feelings that are troubling or threatening, and feelings that we may not initially be able to recognise or acknowledge. Psychodynamic therapists work to identify and explore recurring themes and patterns in peoples’ thoughts, feelings, self-concept, relationships, and life experiences. Related to the identification of recurring themes and patterns is the recognition that past experience, especially early experiences of attachment figures, affects our relation to and experience of the present.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy examines the impact of peoples’ relationships and interpersonal experiences on their psychology and well-being. Psychodynamic therapists explore early experiences, the relation between the past and present, and the ways in which the past tends to “live on” in the present. The focus is not on the past for its own sake, but rather on how the past sheds light on current psychological difficulties. The goal is to help patients free themselves from the bonds of past experience in order to live more fully in the present.
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A NOTE ON OUR THERAPEUTIC APPROACH
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The psychodynamic psychotherapy offered at Turner & Associates is intended to prepare your mind for self exploration and conscious self-understanding. It is an approach which emphasises the use of that insight to promote healing, choice, self-integration and autonomy in life and relationships.
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This type of psychotherapy is not directive or explicitly "skills" focused, rather it is exploratory in nature and designed to facilitate knowledge and understanding of oneself as a whole person.
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"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become"
CARL GUSTAV JUNG