The Psychoanalytic Idea of Psychological Conflicts Being Expressed as Symptoms

question 25

Multiple Choice

The psychoanalytic idea of psychological conflicts being expressed as symptoms (either psychological or physical) played an important role in Freud's ____, a construct that was widely accepted by mainstream American psychiatry until the latter part of the 20th century.

• A) theory of sublimation
• B) theory of psychosis
• C) theory of the unconscious
• D) theory of neurosis

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