While we can trace some of the causes behind these problems — from
individual psychological dynamics to economic and political structures — we are still left wondering: where did we go wrong and how did it ever get to this point?
Not exact matches
The primary distinctions between MFT's and other mental health professionals are that they don't prescribe medication (unlike psychiatrists) and their philosophical orientation is always pointed towards understanding the family
dynamics at play either consciously or unconsciously for the client (s)(unlike psychologists, who can be predominantly interested in the
individual's
psychological experience, clinical research, etc.).
By pairing us with an «Imago match» — an
individual who is like our caretakers in emotionally significant ways — our unconscious drives us to re-create our childhood
psychological dynamics in an attempt to heal the central wounds we carry.