The Goal of Psychoanalysis Is To

question 57

Multiple Choice

The goal of psychoanalysis is to:

• A) help clients understand their resistance to the therapeutic process.
• B) help clients achieve insight.
• C) change the client's negative transference to positive transference.
• D) analyze and resolve the client's transference reactions.

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Definitions:

Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potential

A type of synaptic potential that makes a postsynaptic neuron less likely to generate an action potential, effectively decreasing neuronal activity.

Temporal Summation

Summation of the local potential that results when two or more action potentials arrive at a single synapse in rapid succession.

Action Potentials

Electrical impulses that travel along the membrane of a neuron signaling the cell to perform its function.

Synapse

The junction between two nerve cells, where electrical signals are transmitted from one neuron to another.