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That’s why, unlike contemporary “mainstream” psychiatry (and its hypothesis that symptoms are just Signs of Pathological Biological Processes) or C.B.T (and the “Mind over Matter” hypothesis that symptoms can be eliminated by conscious will and the application of symptom-tailored Cognitive Techniques), Psychodynamic Theory inspires upon its practitioners the Ethical Imperative to neither “attack” the symptoms nor “treat” them with anything other than the respectful care appropriate to the knowledge of their conflictual, painful origin.

That’s why the main focus of a psychodynamic practitioner’s work becomes to support and facilitate any suffering person to revisit the areas of mental conflict (often again and again and through different “pathways”), ask the painful questions from new perspectives, find the resources and the power (“dynamis”) to work through them and produce new, less compromised (and often enough less compromising) answers to the conflicts-questions which had captivated his/her existence until then.

During such a process the suffering man/woman may be able to be surprised by the discovery that  “the walls” (i.e. the unconsciously constructed “defences”) “sometimes move”,  indeed they do. When something of this nature and importance occurs, the practitioner may allow himself/herself to be surprised anew by the re-discovery that questions about the “patient’s” dietary and other “habits” have become less relevant indeed.

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