Crossword-Solution: PSYCHODYNAMIC 13 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 31

They will sacrifice economic advantages and benefits and adversely affect their utility outcome in the name of principles, to quell psychological tensions and pressures, as part of obsessive-compulsive rituals, to maintain a false grandiose image, to go on living in a land of fantasy, to resolve a psychodynamic conflict and, generally, to cope with personal problems which have nothing to do with the idealized rational economic player of the theories.

Most psychodynamic theories [especially Klein, Mahler] are virtually constructed upon this foundation.

Attachment to and dependence on significant others is the result of the non-separateness of the child, go the classical psychodynamic/object-relations theories.

This incorporation of the world through the sensory modalities is the basis for the "oral stage" in the psychodynamic theories.

The main contribution of psychoanalysis and later psychodynamic schools is the understanding that self-identity is a dynamic, evolving, ever-changing construct - and not a static, inertial, and passive entity.