The Importance of Conversion Disorder in Psychoanalysis Is Based Upon

question 43

Multiple Choice

The importance of conversion disorder in psychoanalysis is based upon

• A)Freud's discovery that patients with conversion disorders were usually victims of sexual abuse.
• B)Freud who suffered from and overcame a conversion disorder.
• C)Freud's belief that more directive methods were appropriate for treating conversion disorders,paving the way for linking psychoanalysis and behavior therapy.
• D)Freud's development of many psychoanalytic concepts while treating patients with conversion disorder.

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