Psychodynamic Model

Psychodynamic therapists make genetic links between early childhood experiences and deal patient’s current character structure and symptomatology. The patient’s emotional response to the therapist (transference) and the therapist’s emotional response to the patients (counter transference) are also sources of learning. Key patterns of feeling and behaving from early childhood are repeated or ‘transferred’ on to the people in the patient’s adult life including the therapist.

Assumptions: Pathology of elderly people is due to conflict between structures of mind - Id, Ego and Super Ego. Study the pathology in terms of energy processing from Unconscious to conscious through Pre-conscious.

Psychosexual stages
Oral, Anal, Phallic,Genital and Latency

Ego-defense mechanisms – Regression, Repression, projection, rationalization, displacement, reaction formation etc.