psychodynamicsn.
/ˌsʌɪkə(ʊ)dʌɪˈnamɪks/, U.S. /ˈˌsaɪkoʊdaɪˈnæmɪks/ The activity and interplay of the unconscious and conscious mental and emotional forces that determine personality and motivation; the branch of psychology and psychiatry concerned with this.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > [noun]
psychodynamics1874
characterology1895
ego-psychology1923
personology1926
personality1930
personalistics1935
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental action or process > psychology of mental action > [noun]
psychonomy1803
psychognosya1832
psychodynamics1874
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > [noun] > dominant determiner of > interrelation of parts
psychodynamics1874
1874 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 134 Psychodynamics. From the biological stand-point our first division of the Organism is into Affective and Active, which division represents the reception of stimulus, and the discharge of force: sensation, and movement.
1933 F. G. Benedict & C. G. Benedict Mental Effort 26 To secure real, sustained mental effort and thus bring our measurements as nearly as possible into the field of psychodynamics, we employed three methods.
1957 ‘T. Sturgeon’ Thunder & Roses 175 Psychodynamics has come a long way, but it hasn't begun to alter the fact that human beings are the most feral, vicious..and self-destructive creatures God ever made.
1963 J. A. Johnson Group Therapy v. 164 The therapist will have formed an opinion of the psychodynamics of each member from previous meetings.
2000 M. S. Kimmel & A. Aronson Gendered Society Reader 73 Freud..believed that homosexuality was a problem to be explained by familial psychodynamics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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