Your Roommate Paulie Is a Smoker

Multiple Choice

Your roommate Paulie is a smoker.He really would like to quit and has been reading about Freudian theory.Paulie thinks that he is fixated at the oral stage and that he should make an appointment with a clinician who specializes in psychosexual therapy.What would you tell him?

A) Few professionals adhere to Freud's theory, even psychoanalysts, so he should try something else.
B) He should probably try it.Freud would say that he was orally fixated.
C) It sounds to you like he is actually anally fixated.
D) It will take time, but psychoanalysis would probably work for him.