Your Roommate Paulie Is a Smoker

question 194

Multiple Choice

Your roommate Paulie is a smoker.He really would like to quit and has been reading about Freudian theory.Paulie thinks that he is fixated at the oral stage and that he should make an appointment with a clinician who specializes in psychosexual therapy.What would you tell him?

• A)Few professionals adhere to Freud's theory, even psychoanalysts, so he should try something else.
• B)He should probably try it.Freud would say that he was orally fixated.
• C)It sounds to you like he is actually anally fixated.
• D)It will take time, but psychoanalysis would probably work for him.

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