If a Psychoanalyst Suspects That a Patient's Behaviour Represents Transference

question 165

Multiple Choice

If a psychoanalyst suspects that a patient's behaviour represents transference, he or she will most likely:

• A) signal to the patient that the therapy session should be ended.
• B) help the patient interpret the transferred feelings.
• C) ignore the behaviour as common and unimportant.
• D) begin to engage in countertransference.

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Definitions:

Level of Significance

In hypothesis testing, the threshold below which the null hypothesis is rejected, often denoted by alpha.

Rejected

A term used, often in statistical analysis, to indicate that a hypothesis has been dismissed or disproved based on data analysis.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis in statistical testing that proposes there is no significance difference or effect and that any observed difference is due to chance.

P-value

The probability of observing the tested result, or one more extreme, if the null hypothesis is true.