The psychodynamic approach to executive coaching helps clients understand complex emotions and change their behaviours – even ingrained, unhelpful ones. Catherine Sandler explains how Human beings find change difficult. We want it, yet we fear and resist it. It is the same with coaching clients – they may have a genuine wish to find new, better ways of functioning, yet they cannot relinquish their old ways. The psychodynamic model of the mind makes a unique contribution to understanding this paradox. It explains the complex, deep-rooted nature of our emotional...