Psychodynamic therapy

Hello,

does anybody have experience with psychodynamic therapy? I'm planning to visit a therapist who's allegedly worked with pwBPD and favors this kind of psychotherapy. All I know about psychodynamics is that Freud was connected with it, and it's freaking me out.

Hi,
I havent heard of it tbh, i would google search it a bit if i was you

Echinacea wrote:Hi,
I havent heard of it tbh, i would google search it a bit if i was you

My brain is mashed potato right now, but what I understand from what I read online is that it's focused on your past, how your past affects your current state etc. It sounds like it could potentially help me, I have a great need to talk to somebody about my past - my brother outright refused to talk to me about it because he doesn't want to remember his childhood - but I just don't know what it would look like in reality. I'm scared that the therapist would take my confessions and run with them in some weird directions, like Oedipus complex or some other bizarre Freudian sh it. SO I'm wondering if anybody here has had some luck with it.

jerboa wrote:

Echinacea wrote:Hi,
I havent heard of it tbh, i would google search it a bit if i was you

My brain is mashed potato right now, but what I understand from what I read online is that it's focused on your past, how your past affects your current state etc. It sounds like it could potentially help me, I have a great need to talk to somebody about my past - my brother outright refused to talk to me about it because he doesn't want to remember his childhood - but I just don't know what it would look like in reality. I'm scared that the therapist would take my confessions and run with them in some weird directions, like Oedipus complex or some other bizarre Freudian sh it. SO I'm wondering if anybody here has had some luck with it.

Ah yes i understand know.

I had this a few months ago ..my therapist her, i told here ALL i needed, validation on whether i was abused mentally (i know i was physically) and it has helped a lot to have her tell me that my mother was abusive and that i need to let go of the anger i hold in for not being heard. i cried in every session going over all that stuff and even some that i had hidden for years.

for me it has helped ..gave me understanding and clarity ..also after speaking with my therapist it sort of gave me the courage to tell my mother the things i hated about her parenting and the abuse she caused me...we have cleared a lot of the air and having the questions of "why" answered has definitely helped me to forgive her ..i wont forget but i have forgiven (i splitted a lot in my childhood) were as now i see her for how see is now NOT how she was from my past

I hope this has put your mind at rest ..im sure it will be of help and support for you to "offload" all your carrying, i truly believe that.

Anger is a powerful dangerous emotion

Try it out! Maybe I'm speaking out of personal intrigue lol (I've always wanted to try it), but what do you have to lose? I highlyyy doubt that your therapist is going to say, "Oh, you wanna sleep with your mom! That's the answer!" Psychodynamic therapy isn't the same as Freud's psychoanalysis, though psychoanalytic is the basis of its roots. Good luck

It could be really helpful if you go slowly when you talk about your past and feelings and things that come up - I had this kind of therapy at 16 and I recovered a lot of horrible memories from my past - really painful physical and emotional abuse from my mom - I don't think it was too great back then - I felt like the time was up for our sessions quickly and then I had two weeks to see him and go back into it again.

My currently counsellor now is doing this kind of counselling because I really wanted to finally get over my past - no matter what I read, I could not process it completely because it was just too painful. I have been to about 10 sessions and we meet weekly. I cry a lot during my sessions too, but that is because the little girl in me comes out. When I am speaking as the adult me, I feel very proud of how far I have come in adulthood. It totally sucks to relive the memories of your childhood, but living with them hidden somewhere inside you makes you act out in your relationships in real life.

I have always felt that I wasn't "good enough" and I was always to blame for things growing up and now I realize that my parents were the ones who were not "good enough" at parenting.

DBT is supposed to be great for BPD, and looking at the posts on these boards, and others, almost all other therapies seem to fail hard. CBT just pushed the buttons of those with BPD, and they just end up dropping out, and talk therapy will never work needless to say. Also, isn't Psychodynamic therapy pretty much just a glorified version of psychoanalysis?