ABSTRACT
Psychodynamic coaching is an independent method in its own right, drawing its theoretical base from the same fields of knowledge as the other psychodynamic methods. This chapter briefly describes psychodynamic coaching in comparison with other psychodynamic methods, to make the differences and similarities clear. There are different versions of psychotherapy, depending on which of the more specific theoretical schools in the psychodynamic field it is associated with. Group analysis is a method of analysing groups. Psychodynamic coaching in groups is different from group analysis, because of the different objectives, with regard to the time frame and the definition of goals. Role analysis takes its starting point from the concept of roles. Supervision is a phenomenon originally associated with clinical training of therapists and health care providers. Psychodynamic coaching takes its theoretical and conceptual starting point in psychodynamic theory concerned with personality and developmental psychology, couple psychology, social and group psychology, and psychodynamic system theory.
