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Definition and description
As a further development of the ideas of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, Carl Gustav Jung (C.G. Jung), the founder of analytical psychology and Alfred Adler, the founder of individual psychology, depth psychology comprises forms and techniques of treatment for the treatment of conflicts (disorders) that occur in (childhood) development and negatively affect the relationship between people and each other. As already mentioned above, depth psychology treatment forms are used when conflicts occur during development that negatively affect the interaction between people.
This is the case, for example, when learning problems, such as ADHD or ADHD, place a heavy burden on the family. Behavioral patterns and, classically, negative behavior are often tolerated. Statements such as: he does not mean any harm … he can’t help it … or he has always been like that … show that behaviors are not welcomed, but are tolerated.
Usually the situation escalates when further problems arise. Often the reasons for certain behavioral patterns are rooted in childhood and this is exactly where depth psychological treatments come in. Related to the problem of ADHD, this means that the behavior of the child must be examined, causally questioned in order to explain and understand behavior.
Grounded behavior patterns are often not noticed because they have developed and consolidated over a longer period of time. In daily contact with each other, these behaviors are not foreign, but rather belong to this person. How, when and by what means they arose can hardly be determined anymore.
This is the starting point of depth psychological treatment, whose goal is to recognize typical behavioral patterns that have negative effects and to change them or replace them with alternative behavioral patterns. In contrast to the field of classical psychoanalysis, the now, the present, is assigned a more important role in the field of depth psychology. This means: A problem arises and it is taken up.
The central problem is the starting point of a session. The task of the therapist is now to provide help for self-help by working towards the solution of the problem. In doing so, it may be necessary to first define partial goals that need to be achieved.
These goals cannot be achieved by the therapy sessions alone, which can take the form of individual or group therapy. Of particular importance is the assistance in the home environment. Only in this way can it be permanently achieved that typical symptoms of the child are alleviated, changed or replaced by other behavioral patterns. In order for this to happen, an intensive exchange of goals between the therapist and the child, but also between the therapist and the parents, is of particular importance. This explains why a trusting relationship both between the child and the therapist and also between parents and the therapist is indispensable and is one of the essential factors for the success of a therapy.
