Priscilla Is Twenty-Three Years Old and Usually Has a Fairly

question 28

Multiple Choice

Priscilla is twenty-three years old and usually has a fairly high sex drive.Recently,she has experienced an unexpected drop in sex drive,although she doesn't have any new medical problems.What would be an important question to ask her before recommending psychotherapy?

• A) "Have you been exposed to high levels of testosterone lately?"
• B) "Have you recently started taking birth control pills?"
• C) "Have you recently stopped using marijuana?"
• D) "Have you experienced lower levels of prolactin lately?"

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Definitions:

Learning Focus

The targeted area or subject matter aimed at acquiring knowledge or skills.

Psychical Mechanisms

Processes by which psychological factors influence or determine behavior and mental states.

Hysterical Phenomena

Symptoms or behaviors that are a manifestation of extreme stress, anxiety or unconscious conflict, often appearing without an apparent organic cause.

Freud And Breuer

Refers to Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, pioneers in the development of psychoanalysis, with their early work on hysteria laying the groundwork for psychoanalytic theory.