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• n  the interrelation of conscious and unconscious processes and emotions that determine personality and motivation
• n  the branch of social psychology that deals with the processes and emotions that determine psychology and motivation

• Now, with no lengthy trial in their way, psychiatrists can immediately begin to explore the psychodynamics of a child murderer.
• Many psychoanalysts do not accept the death instinct, but most modern thinking swings between versions of Freud's psychodynamics of depression on the one hand and Durkheim's .
• ROCK 'N' ROLL The psychodynamics of the rock 'n' roller has long been a fertile field of motivational researchers.