PSYCHODYNAMICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychodynamics mean? 

• PSYCHODYNAMICS (noun)
  The noun PSYCHODYNAMICS has 2 senses:

1. the interrelation of conscious and unconscious processes and emotions that determine personality and motivation

2. the branch of social psychology that deals with the processes and emotions that determine psychology and motivation

  Familiarity information: PSYCHODYNAMICS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHODYNAMICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The interrelation of conscious and unconscious processes and emotions that determine personality and motivation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("psychodynamics" is a kind of...):

interrelatedness; interrelation; interrelationship (mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The branch of social psychology that deals with the processes and emotions that determine psychology and motivation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("psychodynamics" is a kind of...):

social psychology (the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychodynamics"):

group dynamics (the branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups)