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Psychodynamic Relational Psychodynamic Case Study

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PCT aims to promote therapeutic change by collaborating with clients to achieve the following: psychodynamically interpret and understand their cognitive patterns; gain insight on how these emerged and may be cyclically affecting their current behavior, motivations, interpersonal relations and mental states; challenge these cognitively; and test them behaviorally and interpersonally both within and outside the therapeutic parameters. While cyclical psychodynamic therapy employs a psychodynamic relational orientation to inform client conceptualization (Gold & Wachtel, 1993), PCT draws focus on dysfunctional thinking patterns (Beck & Weishar, 2008), that have emerged from a particular MMC constellation (including relational psychodynamics) and …show more content…

The core elements of interpretation and meaning making are shared with PCT, however the latter is considered a theoretical integration that utilizes psychodynamic and cognitive principles of conceptualization and mechanisms of change.In line with the relational focus of cyclical psychodynamics and the hermeneutically informed approach, Frank (2002) has advanced a relational bridge to enable the integration of action-oriented techniques with in-depth exploration through clients' enactments, or else their reflexive contributions to interpersonal interactions according to their unique psychodynamics. Here too the focus on behavioral tendencies seems to direct attention away from the cognitive processing directing behavior, and PCT offers the complementary approach of detecting and informing cognitive patterns that have been psychodynamically activated and are constantly involved in a mutual interplay between behaviors, interpersonal relations, and

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