Your Friend Has Been Losing Quite a Bit of Weight

question 196

Multiple Choice

Your friend has been losing quite a bit of weight and is now very thin.Although she was very attractive before she began to lose weight,nearly everyone thinks that she is now way too thin and unattractive.However,she thinks that she is too heavy.What is going on? She likely has ____.

• A) anorexia nervosa
• B) bulimia
• C) a thyroid problem
• D) cancer

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Definitions:

Freudian Theory

A psychological framework developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious motivations and conflicts as driving human behavior and personality development.

Life-giving Instinct

An innate or natural drive in living beings to reproduce or engage in behaviors that sustain life or promote well-being and survival.

Thanatos

In psychoanalytic theory, it represents the death drive, postulated by Freud as a basic human instinct oriented toward self-destruction and destructiveness.

Eros

In Freudian theory, the constructive, life-giving instinct.