Psychodynamic Therapy Quotes

“pervasiveness of patterns and repetitions from the past.”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“It has also clarified the continuing need for treatment of other problems such as developmental and lifecycle issues that are not symptom based, such as identity formation,
intimacy and relationship problems, and loss and grieving. Common clinical scenarios include teenagers in conflict with their parents as they try to "find themselves," young adults with”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“We see the central task of psychotherapy as the rewriting of a more complex and useful narrative of the patient's life and experience.”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“Indeed, we recognize that a deep treatment may not be required for all patients. Much of the success of behavioral therapy is thought to reside in its focus on symptoms and in its parsimonious and directed use of therapeutic resources to decrease symptoms. It does not aim to be a therapy of depth, and this is one of its strengths. In contrast dynamic psychotherapy, which facilitates a patient's rewriting of his life narrative, his picture of himself, his past, present, and future, seems uniquely positioned to address the depth of a individual's experience.”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“The observation has been made that that only psychodynamic psychotherapy among the psychotherapies retains the ambition to cure or help patients transform themselves in a profound way (Seligman, 2002).”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are convergent with respect to their interest in transference, countertransference, unconscious meanings in the here and now, the importance of analyzing character, and the impact of early relationships.”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“relationship makes it possible to understand the underlying issue better and therefore helps her solve it.”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“This moment is an interpersonal crisis, but also a psychodynamic opportunity. The task of the therapy is to elucidate what is going on in this moment. The patient did not come to therapy to solve her problem with the therapist, but rather to decrease her depression. However, the enactment in the therapeutic”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“in order to understand how they relate to the past, the search for recurring patterns, and a focus on the therapeutic relationship to see how conflicts are repeated.”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“the essence of dynamic psychotherapy-exploration of current conflicts and relationships”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“Making the connection between the boyfriend and the father was frightening to her, but after discussing this several times, she began to feel some relief and an unaccustomed sense of calm.”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

“Students need the opportunity to process these gut reactions.”
― Richard F. Summers, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice