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PSYCHODYNAMICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)