Matt Is an Obsessive-Compulsive Patient with a Need to Reread

question 51

Multiple Choice

Matt is an obsessive-compulsive patient with a need to reread every sentence twenty-five times.For an hour in therapy,his doctor asks him to read sentences written with disappearing ink.After initial panic and anxiety,Matt finds his compulsive need to be abating.The doctor is using a therapeutic method called

• A) cognitive restructuring.
• B) psychoanalysis.
• C) flooding.
• D) imagery.

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Definitions:

Toilet Training

The process of teaching a young child to control their bladder and bowel movements and use the toilet.

Bladder Elimination

The process of discharging urine from the body, a key function of the urinary system.

Superego

The component of the human psyche in Freudian psychoanalysis that represents internalized societal standards of right and wrong.

Identification

A psychological process in which an individual assimilates aspects, properties, or attributes of another person and is transformed, wholly or partially, by the model the other provides.