What is Psychodynamic Counselling?

As part of the Understanding Approaches series, the Counselling Channel's Niall O'Loingsigh interviews author and psychotherapist Brendan McLoughlin to discover more about the psychodynamic approach to counselling and psychotherapy.

[@raymondlai4656]

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[@tsjasmine28]

Thanks for the video! i think the psychodynamic approach is the way for me, i like the person centered approach but this interests me more.

[@ECConlinetherapy]

Thank you for this video 🙏

[@tmptwassteffensen5807]

Very simply explained.

[@hgcollective]

Good overview thanks

[@CalumnMcAulay]

Is there any research to substantiate the theory of repression and negative physical symptoms? It seems a little far fetched to me!

[@johnleeoddy]

cheers for this, im goin to smash my exam this morning :-)

[@MrMckenzie92]

good info

[@omuedetheophilus8355]

Thank you for the video. What do we understand by psychodynamic counseling techniques?

[@Jshect]

This should be renamed info on Freud. Modern psychodynamic counselling has abandoned much of the nonsense Freud conjured up and is more in tune with reality. I am reading psychodynamic therapy: a guide to evidence-based practice in which the authors try to take the practical applications, the more realistic and hopefully accurate approaches and ideas, and psychodynamics based on scientific studies, and apply it to therapy. If you read factual information on Freud you'll find he was more like a cult leader than a scientist and so, although he did contribute a lot to this field, many of his extremely nutty ideas have been abandoned.

[@AgentFTW1]

screw .Google you should be renamed to narrow minded
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[@person1452]

"Nonsense Freud conjured up?"- Your comment lacks any sense of context and depth. Please attempt to understand before being so dismissive.

[@shilohchiyedzancubencube3624]

While acknowledging the great pioneering work done by Freud I do find some of his work to be narrow minded and dismissive to the female gender.

[@gSWG3R]

Correct. Thankfully researchers took the good with us, and left the bad behind. He had alot of nutty ideas, and ironically seemed to project alot of his unresolved trauma - the sexual focus on child developmental factors really sat wrong with me, and it's likely he was a victim of abuse.