In Traditional Psychoanalysis, Direct Attempts to Have a Phobic Person

question 168

Multiple Choice

In traditional psychoanalysis, direct attempts to have a phobic person confront the feared situation

• A)is not used because the phobia is symptomatic of underlying conflicts.
• B)is not used because the patient is assumed to have no control over the avoidance.
• C)is used in order to relive the original trauma that led to the phobia.
• D)is used as a way of making unconscious material readily available to the individual.

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