Psychodynamic Theory (Deep Dive) (2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When I first entered the field about 20 years ago, I was exposed to several different theories of psychotherapy. |
| 0:15.0 | I was exposed to, you know, cognitive theory, behavioral theory, narrative therapy, you know, all the various different, you know, I don't know, |
| 0:24.4 | dozens and dozens of different psychotherapy theories. |
| 0:28.8 | And yet one of them really resonated with me, and that was object relations. |
| 0:34.6 | More specifically, at the time I was exposed specifically to object to relations family |
| 0:41.1 | therapy. |
| 0:42.9 | And it's interesting to me because 20 years hence, I still find object relations in |
| 0:52.0 | psychodynamic theory to be the most compelling theory and the most |
| 0:55.6 | interesting and the most worth my time, so to speak. Incidentally, all the theories resonate with me, |
| 1:03.0 | cognitive theory, behavioral theory, the brief therapies, humanistic, psychotherapies, all of them |
| 1:08.8 | resonate with me. But when I think about if I had to choose |
| 1:13.6 | one or if I had to count the amount of instances in which I think about any particular theory, |
| 1:20.7 | psychodynamic would be the one that really sticks out for me. When I was in graduate school, |
| 1:26.5 | they actually forced us to choose one theory and to |
| 1:31.6 | stick with it for a bit. It's a common graduate school practice. And I chose object relations theory |
| 1:38.1 | and barely understood it. In fact, I would venture to say it probably took me about 15 years to |
| 1:46.5 | really even halfway grasp what object relations and psychodynamic theory was. And it wasn't really |
| 1:55.8 | until, I don't know, I was probably almost done with my doctorate years later that I, and it was given |
| 2:02.6 | ample opportunity to read and write and talk and research and all this kind of stuff. |
| 2:07.9 | It wasn't really until then that I was like, oh, I think I'm starting to get this. And so I, I think |
| 2:15.6 | that's part of the reason why I like it, honestly, is because it's so complex and it never ceases to confuse me. |
| 2:24.2 | And whereas other theories, I can grasp in a short amount of time. |
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