other approaches may not outwardly identify these things.
LOL. Little further than that... Many other approaches outright disagree with many of the conclusions of the psychodynamic approach assumes or states about relationships, and also the assumptions those conclusions drive .
Just as a few examples...
- Transference is something that Psychodynamic Therapists work
towards. They want that blurring of boundaries for ABC reasons, under the base belief that it's healthy. That's something most other schools of thought work
against (if it happens at all, and it doesn't in all much less most therapeutic relationships), for XYZ reasons, under the base belief that it's not healthy.
- The belief that behavior is nearly always, if not always, driven by unconscious motives is pretty much
only found in Psychodynamic Theory. It's also directly attacked by Cognitive Theory (and Buddhism), which believes that people's motivations are predominantly conscious, not unconscious.
- Ditto psychosexual development in early childhood, is purely Psychodynamic. No other approach I know of sexualizes children.
- Eros & Thanatos is another. While sex & violence are certainly motivations for some people, some of the time, no other approach assumes those are the
only two motivations that drive people. In fact, Humanists get about rabid with all the predeterminism in Psychodynamic theory, as their foundation is based on personal Agency.
- Id, Ego, & SuperEgo, another pure Psychodynamic theory thing, especially that there is constant conflict between the 2 unconscious minds.
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<grin> Psych is fun. ;) I'll stop there, though. But there are so many contradictions in schools of thought that the entire first & second quarters of psych (101 & 201, essentially) are overviews of what each school believes & their history. Then, your next 25 classes? Each and every single time anything is mentioned? One has to memorize what each school of thought believes on the subject. There's a lot of cross-over so it's not super hard, as schools tend to group together, but it is a bit like watching an 1800's dance...where partners usually stay the same, but sometimes switch around, and men & women are usually paired, but sometimes the line moves and it's women together & men together.
Or maybe a food metaphor would be better... Meat & 3 Veg, vs Meat &Potatoes, vs Kosher, vs Halal, vs Vegetarian, vs Vegan, etc. Each diet makes different assumptions about what people eat, why they should eat it, and what the results are. There is some crossover in both belief & ingredients... But each is quite distinct, and some are directly opposed while others are allied loosely. (Meat vs Vegan, or Vegan + Hindu Veg).
By the time you're done with your bachelors, most psych students know exactly which school they want to go on and specialize in during their masters program, because they know which schools of thought they gel with, and which schools they find *schtupid* and make them bang their head on their desk... From having to memorize all the different opposing views... For. Everything. :p
