Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapies

ProQuest Video: 1:45:10
Counseling Theories in Action presents four clinicians working with four different clients. The theories represented are Psychodynamic, Adlerian, Gestalt, and Multicultural Feminist. Viewers will see how professionals make sense of their chosen theoretical model and witness a variety of evidence-based theoretical interventions with the client.
Intervention Techniques for Adlerian:
- Encouragement
- Early Recollections
- Spitting in the Soup
- Push Button Technique
- Acting “As If”
- Task Setting

ProQuest Video: 1:00:29
In this video Otto Kornberg takes questions from the audience about psychotherapy.

ProQuest Video: 1:51:43
Counseling Theories in Action presents four clinicians working with four different clients. The theories represented are Psychodynamic, Adlerian, Gestalt, and Multicultural Feminist. Viewers will see how professionals make sense of their chosen theoretical model and witness a variety of evidence-based theoretical interventions with the client.
Intervention Techniques for Psychodynamic:
- Working Through
- Free Association
- Interpretation
- Resistance
- Confrontation
- Transference

(American Psychoanalytic Association) Psychoanalysis arose from an appreciation of the power of people talking directly to one another about questions that matter and issues that are difficult to understand. In examining what lies beneath the surface of human behavior—in providing multi-layered and multi-dimensional explanations—psychoanalysis teaches us about the unconscious psychological and psychosocial forces that fall outside of everyday awareness.

(National Library of Medicine) Adlerian Therapy, introduced by Alfred Adler (1870-1937), is a constructivist and encouragement-based counseling technique concentrating on prevention rather than remediation. His advising method progressed to a combination of purposeful, cognitive, and psychodynamic views.

(Adler Graduate School) Alfred Adler (1870-1937), world renowned philosopher and psychiatrist, stressed the need to understand individuals within their social context. During the early 1900s, Adler began addressing such crucial and contemporary issues as equality, parent education, the influence of birth order, life style, and the holism of individuals. Adler believed that we all have one basic desire and goal: to belong and to feel significant.

(Adler University) The core Adlerian principles are only briefly reviewed here for context, as a more thorough explanation is readily available

(American Psychological Association) Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapies help people to improve their lives by gaining a better understanding about how they think and feel.

(American Psychoanalytic Association) Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a form of clinical practice that is based on psychoanalytic theory and principles.

(National Library of Medicine) This activity reviews the history, theory, technique, and future direction of psychodynamic psychotherapy and explains the role of the healthcare team in improving care for patients who undergo psychiatric treatment.

(Freud Museum London) These films are intended to facilitate first encounters with Sigmund Freud’s thought.

(British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) Our member Sarai Monk explains what psychodynamic therapy is and what to expect from the psychodynamic approach