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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
psychodynamic

also psycho-dynamic, 1856, from psycho- + dynamic (adj.).

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psychodynamic

a. Of or pertaining to psychodynamics, the dynamic interplay between forces that govern human behavior, or the study of this

Usage examples of "psychodynamic".

If a psychodynamic clinician and a cognitive clinician discuss their teen male clients who love online fantasy games, they may discover some significant overlap in their concepts of psychopathology and psychotherapy.

Actually, there is a whole sub-field in psychodynamic theories of narcissism, which tries to explain the dynamics of reactive psychoses in pathological narcissism.

Past actuals (structures already laid down in evolution but subsequently submerged) include the phylogenetic heritage and the ontogenetic heritage (from material/plant/animal identification to perinatal matrices to Freudian psychodynamic unconscious to collective archaic unconscious).