According to the Psychoanalytic View, What Makes Generalized Anxiety Disorder

question 33

Multiple Choice

According to the psychoanalytic view, what makes generalized anxiety disorder GAD) different from specific phobias?

• A) Individuals with specific phobias suffer from self-hate and project this emotion on the feared stimulus.
• B) Defense mechanisms are not functional in GAD.
• C) The underlying conflict in GAD is between the ego and the superego, while it is between the id and ego in specific phobias.
• D) Different defense mechanisms are employed by those with with GAD and those with specific phobias.

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