Psychodynamic perspective refers the approach based on the view that behavior is motivated by unconscious inner forces over which the individual has little control.
To many people who have never taken a psychology course, psychology begins and ends with the psychodynamic perspective. Proponents of the psychodynamic perspective argue that behavior is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which we have little awareness or control. They view dreams and slips of the tongue as indications of that a person is truly feeling within a seething cauldron of unconscious psychic activity.