Areas of Work
You can find the work areas of Clinical Psychologist Ali Pamir Kaplan below and read more details about the relevant field.
Psychosexual Development Theory
Psychosexual development theory is a model proposed by Sigmund Freud to explain how personality takes shape in childhood. The theory holds that personality is influenced by early experiences and that…
Transference and Countertransference in Therapy
Transference and countertransference are two core concepts used in psychodynamic therapy to understand the relationship between therapist and client. What is transference? Transference is a person directing onto a present…
Freud’s Structural Theory of Personality: Id-Ego-Superego
Sigmund Freud’s structural theory tries to understand a person’s inner conflicts by dividing the mind into three functional parts. These parts are not physical structures, but concepts used to describe…
Dependence
Dependence is a way of attaching to a substance, a behaviour or a relationship that a person keeps up despite their own wishes, and that affects their life. It can…
Perfectionism
Perfectionism is setting very high and hard-to-meet standards for oneself or one’s work. To a degree this can mean care and effort; but when the standards begin to make a…
Loss and Mourning
Mourning is a natural emotional process that follows a loss. A loss is not only the death of a person; the end of a relationship, a change of job or…
Future Anxiety
Worrying about the future is something anyone can experience when facing uncertainty. When the worry becomes constant, it can make it harder to decide, to plan, or to live in…
Human Relations
Relationships sit at the centre of psychological life. In the psychodynamic approach, the bonds a person forms with others are thought to carry traces of their earliest relationship experiences in…
Self-Confidence Issues
Self-confidence is the general shape of how a person evaluates themselves and the trust they have in themselves. These evaluations form over time, together with the relationships we live through;…
Personality Structure
Personality structure is a psychodynamic concept describing how a person’s way of perceiving and responding to themselves, others and relationships took shape during development. Rather than putting a label on…
Depression and Related Problems
Everyone can feel low, tired or unmotivated from time to time. When these states last and begin to affect daily life, relationships and work, opening a space to talk can…
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety is the general name for the states of worry and tension that anyone can experience from time to time. When it becomes intense enough to disrupt daily life, sleep,…
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy is a school of therapy that seeks to understand the difficulties a person is currently facing through past experiences, relationship patterns and emotions. This approach looks together at…