The Essential Feature for Making the Diagnosis of Schizoid Personality

question 50

Multiple Choice

The essential feature for making the diagnosis of schizoid personality disorder is:

• A)Continually seeking praise and attention
• B)Exhibits high interest in sexual encounters with others
• C)Dramatic and flamboyant
• D)Pervasive social isolation

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Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic approach and theory of mental illness that attributes thoughts and behaviors to unconscious motives and conflicts.

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist.

Countertransference

In psychotherapy, it refers to the emotions and projections that the therapist may feel towards the patient.

Free Association

A psychoanalytic process in which patients express their thoughts freely, letting their mind wander without censorship, to uncover unconscious thoughts and feelings.