Everyone in the Meeting Was Tense and Angry

question 41

True/False

Everyone in the meeting was tense and angry. After joining the group, Joselyn found herself feeling tense and angry as well. This is an example of catastrophizing.

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Definitions:

Oral

Relating to the mouth, including the act of speaking, intake of food, or in medical terms, medication taken by mouth.

Fixation

An obsessive focus or attachment to a developmental stage, person, or object.

Psychosexual Development

A Freudian theory that describes the stages of a child's development focusing on the changes in erogenous zones that drive the psychological processes.

Thanatos

In psychoanalytic theory, the death drive, representing an unconscious desire for destruction and an instinctual pull towards death.