Your Roommate Is a Smoker

question 148

Multiple Choice

Your roommate is a smoker. He really would like to quit and has been reading about Freudian theory. He thinks that he is fixated at the oral stage and that he should make an appointment with a clinician who specialises in psychosexual therapy. What would you tell him?

• A) Few professionals adhere to Freud's theory, even psychoanalysts, so he should try something else.
• B) He should probably try it. Freud would say that he was orally fixated.
• C) It sounds to you like he is actually anally fixated.
• D) It will take time, but psychoanalysis should probably work for him.

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