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Chapter 1 - Psychodynamic Theory: The Development of a Model of the Mind

from Section 1 - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

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Jo O’Reilly
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Summary

The practice of psychiatry and the development of psychological treatments rest upon how we understand the mind and emotional life. As clinicians working with patients with difficulties in how they feel, relate and think we need an understanding of psychic life in healthy and more disturbed states, just as practitioners of physical medicine need to understand bodily processes in sickness and in health.

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Seminars in the Psychotherapies , pp. 3 - 20
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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