Psychodynamics Psychodynamics has been one of the earliest foundations of psychology. The concept of psychodynamics refers to the correlation and interactions of various conscious and subconscious mental or emotional undertakings due to influences personality, behaviors, and attitudes (Merriam-Webster). With the book, The Noticer, motivation and life long journeys are presented which provides an opportunity for the study of psychodynamic studies together. Researchers use scientific approaches to provide interventions grounded in evidence based results. Because psychodynamics is science based upon human responses, researchers use the specific senses to measure ranges of responses conscious and unconscious. Researchers have narrowed the relationships between psyche, personality, and mind (Freud & Freud, 1927). The development of the ego, id, and superego resulted. They look at the psyche, the condition of the mind as a whole, to evaluate the subconscious and the conscious portions of the brain. Personality is a significant point for psychodynamics due to the fact that the personality can trigger motivations and emotions for an individual. Psychologist put these concepts together to give the id, ego, and superego an image. Id is the innate behavior in which your mind and body is programed to do or wants to achieve. The ego battles social standards and contest the superego that is cultural influenced actions.
The scientist that researched this concept and branched from it was Sigmund Freud. Freud used the idea of psychodynamics as an idea of the brain flowing to connect to each section of the mind and causing fluid-like chain reactions, which would trigger human responses. He believed that there were three phases. Phase one dealt with the concept that there had to be a traumatic event for a strangulated effect. The second phase included the brain itself, which included the conscious and the subconscious. Finally, the last phase analyzed the
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