Your Roommate Is a Smoker

question 289

Multiple Choice

Your roommate is a smoker.He really would like to quit and has been reading about Freudian theory.He 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 should probably work for him.

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