According to the Text, What Is One Reason Why Psychoanalytic

question 84

Multiple Choice

According to the text, what is one reason why psychoanalytic theory is NOT advancing in academic departments?

• A) Research psychologists are often ignorant of psychoanalytic thinking.
• B) No one is interested in psychoanalytic thinking, not even psychoanalysts.
• C) Psychoanalytic thinking has been perfected with object relations theory, so there is no room for advancement.
• D) Neo-Freudians respect Freud too much to contradict his theory.

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