An Important Difference Between Traditional and Brief Psychodynamic Therapy Is

question 461

Multiple Choice

An important difference between traditional and brief psychodynamic therapy is that brief psychodynamic therapy ________.

• A)pays significantly less attention to the importance of insight than traditional psychoanalysis does
• B)tends to focus on current life problems whereas traditional psychoanalysis attempts to rebuild the client's personality
• C)relies more heavily on free association than traditional psychoanalysis does
• D)means the therapist is considerably less active than in traditional psychoanalysis

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