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psychodynamics

[ sahy-koh-dahy-nam-iks ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)
  1. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  2. 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.



psychodynamics

/ ˌsaɪkəʊdaɪˈnæmɪks /

noun

  1. functioning as singular psychol the study of interacting motives and emotions
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌpsychodyˈnamic, adjective
  • ˌpsychodyˈnamically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • psy·cho·dy·nam·ic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of psychodynamics1

First recorded in 1870–75; psycho- + dynamics
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Example Sentences

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.

You will gain a far better understanding of the psychodynamics of how police agencies impose their will by sitting through “Is This a Room” than you would most streamed crime procedurals.

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.

In the real-time argument that ensues — punctuated by shouts, murmurs, microaggressions and micro-reconciliations — Marie will give voice to everything from the invisibility of women’s emotional labor to the psychodynamics of the artist-muse hierarchy.

There was not any one thing in the book that surprised me about Trump's psychology or psychodynamics.

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