Summary Of Shedler's Psychodynamic Therapy

Shedler (2010) also used psychodynamic therapy to understand and approach the manifested thoughts that occur throughout a lifetime, just as Freud (1910) discused in his lectures. This therapy unveils anything that is avoided or unexplored in someone’s life due to trauma or a dramtic event. Shedler found in a meta-analysis that people with bordline personality disorder and received psychodynamic therapy had a better outcome in symptom treatments and treatments for furutre issues than people in other types of behavioral therapy. In Freud‘s (1910) lectures, he explains the steps that are needed to take in his psychoanalytic therapy. Shedler (2010) discusses following the procedural rules for treatment may not be as successful as past therapies

have shown. These findings contradicts other procedural therapies because for a long time therapists would be advised to follow certain steps.

Shedler shines light on the chance of the therapies that did not work out depending on whether the therapists stuck to the procedure rather than having an open and encouraging therapy without following specific guidlines. This may be one reason why Freud could never perform hypnosis successfully on his patients, because he wanted to always follow guidlines instead of having open-ended discussion. This merges with shedlers discussion of limitatins of the study. Though Freud (1910) did encompass many discoveries of underlying thoughts, but his sexual based reasoning did not fit the theory of shedler. Shedler discussed the literature on multiple empirical studies and the aspects of the study. The treatment and the meaning of thoughts in Freud’s (1910) manifest and latent of dreams has the same purpose as shedler’s discussion of psychodynamic therapy but his theory is not as supported as later

ones.
Freud‘s (1910) discussion on the unconscious thoughts that are surpressed in people with disorders falls on the basis that the underlying meaning could possibly come from a sexual motive toward the person causing the symptom.

Though the sexual motives of Freud are not supported, Shedler allows us to see how Freud was not wrong about the unconscious thoughts but he does disagree with the sexual motives that Freud lead with. An example of the difference between the two ways of therapy is the transference step of therapy. Both Shedler and Freud agree that tranference ocurrs frequently and is brought up by an unconscious feeling towards someone in their life, but Shedler focuses on the relationship between the therapists and the patient to be a coping mechansim. Maybe, the patient sees the therapists as the person who had casued them pain in the past and takes out there agression or resiliance towards them. Freud may relate this to one of the psycho sexual stages that he presetned to other therapists about a century ago. The transference of fear caould be due to the person having an anal repulsive personality that was casued by a fixation when they were arund one to three years old (example from

class).