While Freud's psychoanalytic therapy (described in more detail below) demanded a much greater investment of time,
current psychodynamic therapy is generally practiced in a less intensive manner (WebMD, 2014).
Psychodynamic family
therapy - which, more than any other school of family
therapy, deals directly with individual psychology and the unconscious in the context of
current relationships - continued to develop through a number of groups that were influenced by the ideas and methods of Nathan Ackerman, and also by the British School of Object Relations and John Bowlby's work on attachment.