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Nathan Is Diabetic and Has Been Advised by His Doctor

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Nathan is diabetic and has been advised by his doctor to reduce his sugar intake. He, however, discounts the negative health consequences of sugar and frequently eats candies. This is an example of the _____.


Definitions:

Maladaptive Behaviors

Behaviors or actions that inhibit a person’s ability to adjust healthily to particular situations.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.

Traditional Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic technique developed by Freud that aims to explore unconscious desires and conflicts through free association, dreams, and transferences.

Empathic Understanding

The capacity to comprehend and share another person's experiences and emotions.

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