Psychodynamic-psychoanalytical

The discipline of child and adolescent psychiatry is acknowledged as a medical specialty or subspecialty in almost all European countries. The historical development of the discipline of child and adolescent psychiatry varies across Europe. Generally, however, four traditions have made substantial contributions to the current orientation of European child psychiatric institutions the neuropsychiatric tradition, the remedial clinical tradition, the psychodynamic-psychoanalytical tradition, and the empirical, epidemiological, statistical tradition. 

Although it has received the most attention, CBT is not the only form of psychotherapy that is effective for depression. Other psychological treatments include interpersonal psychotherapy, short-term psychodynamic therapy and non-directive supportive therapy. Interpersonal psychotherapy focuses on problems that arise in interpersonal relationships, such as marital conflict, the loss of a loved one and social isolation.20 Short-term psychodynamic therapy focuses on acquiring insight and understanding of unresolved conflicts arising from the person s childhood. It is based on Freud s psychoanalytic theory, but requires only months, rather than the years it takes for a full psychoanalysis.21 Non-directive supportive therapy provides a warm, supportive atmosphere in which the depressed person can explore life issues... 

The Viennese neurologist and psychiatrist Sigmund Freud was an imaginative theorist who created psychoanalysis when his dream of a scientific psychology built on the foundation of brain science had to be abandoned. Dreaming was the altered state of consciousness that Freud tried first to explain in psychoanalytic terms. This is because the concepts that became foundational for psychoanalysis via Freud s masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), are the direct intellectual descendents of the key ideas in the failed Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895). By equating what he took to be the psychodynamics of dream formation... 

Psychoanalytic follows original Freudian methods psychodynamic draws more broadly, e.g. from Freud, Jung, Klein, Adler. Both share common ideas ... 

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