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Question 1

What distinguishes 'expressive' (uncovering) psychotherapy from 'supportive' psychotherapy?

Accepted Answer

Expressive therapy aims to make unconscious conflicts conscious; supportive therapy strengthens defenses

Answer

Expressive therapy uncovers and interprets unconscious material, while supportive therapy bolsters adaptive defenses and functioning.

Question 2

In psychoanalytic treatment, a 'here-and-now' transference interpretation links the patient's feelings toward the analyst to:

Accepted Answer

The immediate relational pattern occurring in the therapeutic relationship

Answer

Here-and-now interpretations address the transference as it is actively unfolding in the current session with the analyst.

Question 3

The concept of 'analytic neutrality' is best understood as:

Accepted Answer

The analyst refraining from imposing their values or taking sides in the patient's conflicts

Answer

Neutrality means the analyst does not align with the patient's id, ego, or superego impulses, allowing the patient's conflicts to emerge freely.

Question 4

When a therapist uses 'containment' in a Bionian sense, they are:

Accepted Answer

Processing and detoxifying the patient's projected unbearable mental states before returning them

Answer

Bion's container-contained model describes the analyst as metabolizing the patient's projected beta elements and returning them in a more bearable form.

Question 5

Which of the following is a hallmark of Winnicott's therapeutic approach?

Accepted Answer

Providing a reliable 'holding environment' that allows the patient's true self to emerge

Answer

Winnicott emphasized the analyst's role in providing a reliable, non-impinging holding environment analogous to good-enough mothering.

(Psychoanalysis) Psychoanalysis Theory Test Practice Test

(Psychoanalysis) Psychoanalysis Theory Test Practice Test

Psychoanalysis Treatment Approaches and Interventions 3