Luckily, you've turned to the right place. In this document, I will review the main schools of theory and the techniques they utilize in practice. I will, therefore, try and be mildly objective and unbiased in my presentation, when possible. Before we begin this journey together through education, let me warn you that this article is not a scholarly, objective, dry, journal piece. This psychodynamic way of thinking is generally a watered-down offshoot of the more conservative and rigid psychoanalytic school of thought.
Psychoanalysis emphasizes that all adult problems' roots can be traced back to one's childhood.
Few therapists can afford to practice strict psychoanalysis anymore and it is typically found nowadays only in the hands of psychiatrists, who have spent extraordinary amounts of personal time being analyzed themselves and attending a psychoanalytic institute. Therapists who subscribe to this theory tend to look at individuals as the composite of their parental upbringing and how particular conflicts between themselves and their parents and within themselves get worked out. These constructs go to make up your personality and the role of the unconscious is emphasized. In other words, what you don't know can hurt you. And more often than not, it does.