What are the different forms of the psychodynamic and psychoanalytical approach?
The psychodynamic approach brings together practices ranging from traditional psychoanalysis to psychodynamic (psychoanalytical) psychotherapies, both long and brief. The general underlying psychoanalytical theory to these psychotherapeutic practices is common to them all. Psychoanalysis was born at the end of the 19th century with Freud’s work on hysteria and interpretation of dreams, etc. From its very origin and through the precise description of psychological effects and the formulation of hypotheses about the subconscious mechanisms underlying them, Freud was intending to integrate psychoanalysis into the scientific approach. Psychoanalysis now has a century of history of contribution to psychiatric care. It developed more intensely after the Second World War. The stages in development of psychotherapy have been characterised by clinical variants linked to the evolution of models or terminological classification factors. The psychodynamic (psychoanalytical) psychotherapies stress
