According to psychodynamic therapy, psychological problems arise from:

Intrapsychic conflicts

The correct answer is Option 2: Intrapsychic conflicts

• Psychodynamic therapy (rooted in Freud’s psychoanalysis) believes that psychological problems arise from unconscious conflicts within the mind (called intrapsychic conflicts), often between desires, fears, and social norms.

• Although unresolved childhood fears are important in psychodynamic theory, they are part of the larger intrapsychic conflicts (not the complete cause).

• Faulty learning (behaviorism/cognitive theories) and questions about life's meaning (existential therapy) belong to other approaches, not psychodynamic therapy.