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psychodynamics
[ sahy-koh-dahy-nam-iks ]
noun
- any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- 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
- functioning as singular psychol the study of interacting motives and emotions
Derived Forms
- ˌpsychodyˈnamic, adjective
- ˌpsychodyˈnamically, adverb
Other Words From
- psy·cho·dy·nam·ic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of psychodynamics1
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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