The Patient Develops an Inability to Swallow After Many Years

question 3

Multiple Choice

The patient develops an inability to swallow after many years of emotional abuse.The physicians can find no medical reason for the patient's dysphagia.Which ego-defense mechanism is used by the patient?

• A) Displacement
• B) Dissociation
• C) Compensation
• D) Conversion

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Definitions:

Negative Behaviors

Actions or reactions that are detrimental to an individual's mental or physical well-being, or disruptive to a social or work environment.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Speech

The verbal expression of thoughts, feelings, or information, utilizing language’s sound patterns to communicate with others.

Freudian Theory

A set of psychoanalytic concepts developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious motivations and conflicts as the basis of human behavior.