Dental Phobia – Psycho-dynamic based Therapy

Psycho-dynamic based therapy focuses on the underlying reasons for the presence of a phobia in your life.

It is based on the understanding that the mind stores and assesses events in the memory system. Some events and the context when they occurred, cause Anxiety if they are associated with physical or psychological damage. Some memories are so traumatic that they may not be easily accessed by the conscious mind.

Much anxiety is linked to internal conflicts rooted in the unconscious mind. Worries, guilty feelings and self doubt often do have their origins in the past – events or upbringing. Sufferers may be dimly aware of them or not at all.

Therapy exposes relevant events in a controlled manner. This allows the development of Insight in the root causes of the condition. It allows the person to handle them positively and be free to develop. 

Psycho-dynamic based therapy uses several techniques, which includes Hypnosis, to uncover memories to develop insight into the event and its effects upon you.

Dental phobia can be a severe psychological condition which can affect every area of your life.

The structure of treatment is to use Psycho-dynamic therapy if Behavioural Methods such as Counter-conditioning are stalled.

Once relevant factors have been discovered, discussed and worked through, then progress can be made quite quickly using behavioural methods and graduated exposure to the dental scene.

I have on file many cases that show how extreme dental phobia can be dealt with. Find some recent cases here.