Developmental Psychodynamics

The psychodynamics of borderline personality disorder: a view from developmental psychopathology.

This article provides a contemporary view of the psychodynamics of borderline personality disorder (BPD) from a developmental psychopathology perspective. We first briefly describe the evolution of the borderline construct in psychoanalysis and psychiatry. Then we provide clinically and empirically informed model of domains of personality function and dysfunction that provides a roadmap for thi...

Rethinking placebo in psychiatry: how and why placebo effects occur†

The range of placebo mechanisms can be bewil­ dering, but evolution provides an overarching theoretical framework that permits the integration of the different levels of explanation. Tinbergen’s (1963) classification, for example, divides the causes of behaviours such as placebo responses into proximate mechanisms and ultimate mechan isms (Box 1). This framework allows the integration of physio...

Psychodynamics of Mother Daughter Relationship: Degrees of Deprivation, Oppression and Dispossession in Doris Lessing’s Fiction

The aim of this study is to explore how Doris Lessing‟s works disclosein prominence the power dynamics of the conflicted and struggling relationship of mother and daughter, the paradigm of mother daughter relationship and its psychodynamics including explanations about the developmental stages of the relationship between the mother and the daughter, human behavior of the two in the context of r...

Systems psychodynamics: the formative years of an interdisciplinary field at the Tavistock Institute.

Systems psychodynamics is an interdisciplinary field amalgamating a triad of influences -the practice of psychoanalysis, the theories and methods of the field of group relations, and the task and boundary awareness of open systems perspectives. Although systems psychodynamics is not a new field of study, there has been a general lack of awareness of its roots, how its formative elements have be...

Organizational Empowerment and Systems Psychodynamics