When the American Medical Association Was Established in 1847

question 117

Multiple Choice

When the American Medical Association was established in 1847,

• A)women who worked as midwives were some of the first members.
• B)it competed with several other organizations to influence medicine in the U.S.
• C)the organization worked to outlaw or delegitimize any alternative therapies.
• D)it influence on medicine in the U.S.was minimal.

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Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach that focuses on exploring unconscious desires and conflicts as a means of understanding and resolving psychological disturbances.

Repression

A defense mechanism in which distressing thoughts and memories are unconsciously forced from the conscious mind to the unconscious.

Therapy

The treatment of psychological or emotional disorders and difficulties through the use of psychological techniques designed to encourage communication of conflicts and insight into problems.

Transference

A psychoanalytic concept where emotions and desires originally associated with one person are unconsciously redirected onto another.