Dynamic
Psychology is an emergent discipline in the psychological field since,
connecting itself to the traditional psychoanalytic schools, it also
integrates them with the modern theoretical and applicative acquisitions,
with particular reference to the experimental psychology, the
group-analysis, the transpersonal-world study, the psychology of the Self,
the inter-subjectivity, the family relationships’ system, the inside
influence of communication and, finally, the various factors that have a
remarkable role at the community psychology’s level. An interesting
field of the dynamic psychology concerns the study of the symbolic
world’s role and value; the Itinerant Seminar "L’IMMAGINARIO
SIMBOLICO" represents an advanced model of this type of research. Today, the initial theories and the method of the
psychoanalysis appears effectively less proper for understanding the
post-modern man in his many aspects, not only considering the need to heal
him from his unconscious problems but also the need to offer him a
therapeutic support, both relatively to his problems correlated to the
human and environmental reality that he has experienced from the birth,
and relatively to the stress of adaptation to a too quickly mutable
society. Today we cannot deny that, at a psychotherapeutic level, if the
psychotherapist limits himself only to the deep study of the unconscious,
this can appear restrictive in comparison to the modern dynamic
psychology which, as well as this, directs its attention also to the
patient's experiential world, the relationship with his parents and with
other important figures of his infancy, and extends the analysis to the
cultural matrixes to which the individual belongs and to the eventual
problems between his subjectivity (as a unique person) and the
environmental ecosystem (human environment and natural environment), to
his community, to the contexts in which he was formed and he has lived.
Finally, a particular attention must be given to the relationship between
mind and body because of the increase of psychosomatic illnesses, that
physical problems in which the psychological factors result decisive. From
the psychotherapeutic setting’s point of view, the acquisitions of the dynamic
psychology appear fundamental for a clinical work which goes beyond
the famous psychoanalytic sofa, that is dynamic psychology mostly
privileges the therapeutic relationship vis à vis, the
group-therapies, the expansion of the patient’s expressive and creative
abilities, and, besides, the techniques of empowering for helping him to
find again the strength (or the courage) of developing a more active role
within the community in which he can bring his personal "way of
feeling", his ideas and his ability to build, together with other
people, a more humane-sized social reality.
Dr. Alfredo
Anania
Psychotherapist
Editor of the journal Psicologia Dinamica
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18 March 2006