Large-group psychodynamics and massive violence

The psychodynamics of quitting smoking in a group.

one-to-one relationship, following a pattern of more primitive oral dependency wherein a person, the "feeder," is substituted for the pill. One might wonder whether the patient would adopt the pattern of overindulgence in the person and then attempt to break this habit when closeness became too great, leading to a repeated cycle of overin-dulgence and flight. The authors state that the developm...

Brain organization and psychodynamics.

Any attempt to link brain neural activity and psychodynamic concepts requires a tremendous conceptual leap. Such a leap may be facilitated if a common language between brain and mind can be devised. System theory proposes formulations that may aid in reconceptualizing psychodynamic descriptions in terms of neural organizations in the brain. Once adopted, these formulations can help to generate ...

Developmental Psychodynamics

Organizational Empowerment and Systems Psychodynamics

General Principles of Psychodynamics

r sychiatry is the medical specialty that studies disorders of behavior and experience, both affective and cognitive. Like other branches of medicine, it considers 1) the phenomenology of the normal and abnormal, 2) systems of classification and epidemiological information, 3) etiology, 4) diagnosis, and 5) prevention and treatment. Because human behavior is complex, psychiatry draws on many fi...