Question

34. Resistance appears when ________.

    1. the psychoanalyst has prodded the patient too hard to reveal sexual details of his or her life

    2. the patient is close to anxiety-provoking thoughts and memories

    3. catharsis fails to occur

    4. Both A and C

35. esistance became one of the outstanding signs that ________ had occurred.

    1. catharsis

    2. a battle with the psychoanalyst for control

    3. repression

    4. conscious banishment of uncomfortable ideas

    5. the Oedipus Complex has been resolved favorably

Answer 1

• ANSWER-Resistance appears when the psychoanalyst has prodded the patient too hard to reveal sexual details of his or her life and when the patient is close to anxiety-provoking thoughts and memories.
• Resistance refers to a client's unwillingness to change and grow within therapy or discuss about a particular topic they are uncomfortable with. If the therapist continues to probe the topic, the client may even show resistance by missing therapy appointments or discontinuing therapy.
• ANSWER-Resistance became one of the outstanding signs that repression had occurred.
• Freud views resistance as an unconscious process that people use to protect themselves against intolerable anxiety and pain that might result if they became aware of the repressed feelings.
• Repression is a form of resistance wherein the ego pushes all the tramuatic experiences,ideas and impulses into the unconscious.The person doesnt want to face these experiences which is why they dont want to talk about certain things.