Exam 2: Psychoanalytic Therapies

Which of the following therapies would most likely say that the problem of intimacy is basically a transference problem?

According to psychoanalysis,one of the major reasons that therapy moves slowly is because of the patient's problems with:

Your client is inclined to "bend over backward" to be helpful to those she actually dislikes intensely.As a psychoanalytically informed clinician,you would most likely regard this as an example of:

In which of the following therapies does the therapist raise consciousness by analyzing the client's resistance to free associating and transference?

Which of the following therapies would most likely say that even the most conscious of individuals must make considerable compromises to the culture and leave fantasies of transcendence to the angels?

A psychoanalyst would most likely say which of the following about self-esteem?

To have a client just freely say whatever comes to mind,no matter how trivial the thought may seem,would most likely be advocated by a(n):

The therapeutic aim of confrontation is to:

Which of the following therapies would most likely say that communication is a process in which individuals speak to their internalized image of what the other is supposed to be?

The credit for establishing more flexible forms of psychoanalytic therapy as acceptable alternatives within psychoanalysis is typically given to whom?

The important content and curative method of relational psychoanalysis is:

The Menninger Foundation's Psychotherapy Research Project documented that:

According to psychoanalytic theory,the anxiety due to the assumed birth trauma of being overwhelmed with stimulation is called:

Despite a very difficult history of domestic violence,your now violence-free client chooses to contribute time and effort to support a local battered woman's shelter.From a psychoanalytic perspective,this might be understand as:

Among the more primitive or immature defense mechanisms that develop during the oral stage,which of the following involves closing off one's attention to threatening aspects of the world or self?

An adult who is inclined to talk about the regularity of bowel movements as being a source of satisfaction may be fixated in which stage of psychosexual development and relying on which defense mechanism?

Contemporary psychoanalysis has undergone a paradigm shift from drive reduction to the relational model.The most fundamental difference between relational and classical forms of psychoanalysis is that:

Psychoanalysis would most likely say which of the following about hostility?

According to psychoanalytic theory,which of the following disorders would make a patient a suitable candidate for psychoanalysis?

Even for the mature individual,psychoanalytic theory posits that inner conflicts between conscious and unconscious forces result in: