Just want to pop in and say that I am in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapy and it's so helpful. Learning where the feelings (that drive the perceptions that drive the behaviors) come from is helpful to me. It isn't enough (for me) to know, for example, that I feel like I lose myself sometimes; understanding where identity issues originate means there is a reason for it happening and it isn't that it's an inherent flaw.
Knowing, another example, that my frustration is out of proportion or over the top isn't enough. Squelching it with tricks doesn't fix it; understanding my fears and what is happening in me when I'm horribly frustrated means that over time, that horrible frustration lessens, because I know what my fears are that kick the frustration up about 2,485 notches.

So, this therapy does help me a lot. I wish so much that I'd been in it when I was much younger, but so glad for having it now