Psychiatry and Psychodynamics

Commentary: Coming Full Circle--Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamics, and Forensic Psychiatry.

Drs. Simopoulos and Cohen argue that knowledge of one's unconscious processes improves the forensic psychiatrist's capacity to manage complex forensic situations and to generate forensic formulations and opinions that are demonstrably more valid and reliable, much like competence in cultural assessment and formulation. In practice, the challenges posed by the application of these principles in ...

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...