According to the Psychodynamic Perspective, If Someone Keeps Obsessing About

question 43

Multiple Choice

According to the psychodynamic perspective, if someone keeps obsessing about immoral sexual behavior and repeatedly scrubs his or her face and hands in response to those thoughts:

• A) the scrubbing represents a healthy coping response.
• B) the immoral images represent id impulses.
• C) the superego is helping the person to avoid id impulses.
• D) ego defenses are not present.

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