PSYCHODYNAMICS

Psychodynamics Analysis of an Incident



Psychodynamics Analysis of an Incident

Incident

Working for a magazine, we recruit numerous individuals as internees and trainees. There are several of these individuals who get hired based on their capabilities and confidence level. The major characteristics we look for in a candidate is the writing and analytical skills along with the confidence level of the individual. We usually discover some great writing talent for the magazine our recommend some of them for our other publications if there is no space here but the individual is very talented. A group of five trainees were hired in the past month. Of them a girl named Helen was also hired. Her recruitment tests showed that she had excellent command on her written English. She is imaginative and creatively writes out an article. It was predicted that she will be the one who will be offered a permanent place in the office. However, upon arriving at the office, we witnesses that she is very shy and lack self confidence. She has no idea of how talented she really is. She usually writes out an article and then has clams about whether she has written a good one, or whether she has not explained clearly her points. Another thing is that during the brain storming session of the team she remains quite. However, if the team leader or any other individual talks with her alone, she is bursting with really good ideas. She is usually very tensed and panics very easily.

One day, I met her at a restaurant where she was enjoying with her friends. I was surprised to see her so confidently talking with everyone. When I approached her and talked with her for a little while, she seemed like a different person. She enthusiastically talked about a piece she was working on and asked about my opinion about different future ideas she had in mind. She seemed like a confident woman with a strong head. However, when I met her in the office, she was again that nervous little wreck she always is. She also doubted her ideas that she talked so confidently about the past night. I took her case to one of my seniors and we came to the conclusion that she probably has a workplace phobia. My senior assigned me the job to handle her case and try to make her come out of her phobia.

Psychodynamic Analysis

With this new responsibility of “curing” Helen, I decided to get to know her better and do a full psychodynamic analysis on her. Psychodynamics is used by psychologist to interpret the human behavior and thinking. As such it can be applied to the above mentioned incident which involved two men and two women. The explanation for their behavior may seem to be defying common sense as it carries a perspective that aims to look beyond the obvious. For some one viewing things from a psychodynamic perspective, the thoughts and actions of these four people involved indicate some latent ...