Phychodynamic Case Study

My major stressor wee in the time when my parents got divorced. My parents divorced when I was only seven years old. This had a major effect on my mother and I, not only because we lost everything but the fact that it happened so suddenly without warning- my father just randomly said he wanted a divorce. I despised my father afterwards and refused any attempted interaction.

After the divorce I started seeing psychologists and psychiatrists with the concern of my emotional well-being. I began to withdraw myself from society and seized in doing any school activities- I discontinued athletics, netball, art, gymnastics and music. One can say that my life fell apart. I was placed in a private school since I was unable to cope with big groups (this

Similar to psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy associate unconscious conflicts that occurred in the past with present-day problems. The psychodynamic approach revolves around the use of self-examination and self-reflection as a way in which one “mines” the unconscious for unresolved problems or conflicts. The main goal of the therapy is not merely solving the condition. The goal is rather to make the individuals life easier by resolving or fixing the larger symptoms.

The cognitive behavioral approach focuses or concentrates on identifying and changing the thoughts and behaviors that feed a disorder like anxiety (stress). This is a completely different approach as to that of the psychodynamic approach which focus on the underlying feelings and conflicts that are thought to cause the anxiety (stress) disorder. The approach addresses negative distortions and patterns in the way we interpret ourselves and the world. The basic hypothesis of the cognitive behavioral approach is that our thoughts and not our external events affect your emotional state. In other words, it is not the situation that determines you’re emotional, but your view of the