Dynamic Psychotherapy

Dynamic psychotherapy makes use of many of the theories and clinical methods of psychoanalysis, while adapting them to the needs of a wider variety of patients and clinical situations than "pure analysis" originally evolved to treat. Character problems, for example, often deeper-rooted in their origins and more pervasive in their effects than the more isolated symptoms of neurotic patients, respond more readily to this more active, face-to-face approach. Sessions occur less frequently-- once or twice per week, typically-- and tend to address the patient's problems more literally, as in "How do I keep getting into this same old trouble ?" in contrast to the usual psychoanalytic inquiry, "What unconscious memories are making me feel this way?" Patients with psychiatric disorders (involving mood, thought, perception and arousal, for example) often profit from this form of psychotherapy in addition to the more standard drug therapies, because their disorders occur, after all, in the contexts of lives at least as complex and fully human as those of neurotics. Dynamic psychotherapy can help with the problems of families and couples, and with those of patients who lack the resources of time and money that the more involved psychoanalytic treatments often require.

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