About Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a talking therapy which aims to bring the unconscious mind into consciousness enabling an individual to begin to make sense of and experience deeply rooted feelings in order to understand how they might be impacting her or his current day to day life. These deeply-rooted feelings and memories would have been too difficult or overwhelming for the conscious mind to process at the time when they first occurred, and so to protect itself, the psyche pushed them into the unconscious. The psyche will then develop defences (such as denial or projection) to keep those painful memories and feelings from surfacing into consciousness. Through the therapeutic process these unconscious feelings are surfaced into consciousness and by becoming aware of how behaviour today may be impacted by these deeply-rooted feelings and memories an individual can begin to resolve them as well as their adverse effects on her or his current behaviours and quality of life.
For more information about psychodynamic psychotherapy:
The Royal College of Psychiatrists