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This paper explores Rado's psychodynamic theory of adaptation and its orientation toward pleasure. Any process of psychodynamic adaptation is based fundamentally on the desire and need for love by, for, and with another person. This innate motive is expressed in the first few weeks of life. The need for adaptation arises from fear that love will cease or be lost.