Question

Henry is in psychotherapy to work through his repressed childhood feelings about his mother and stepfather. The therapist asks Henry to freely talk about his feelings, and when Henry starts to address the therapist as if he was Henry's stepfather, the therapist remains neutral and does not make any judgments about how angrily Henry is speaking to him. The therapist's approach best reflects the primary goals of:

cognitive therapy.

systematic desensitization.

client-centered therapy.

psychoanalysis.

Answer 1

The correct option is optipn D- Psychoanalysis.

Explaination

Because the goal of the psychoanalysis therapy helps in releasing the repressed thinking, emotions and feeling. The Psychoanalysis theorey was developed by Sigmund Freud in the year 1855 to 1939. The psychoanalysis theorey had used some techniques to find out the repressed and hidden feeling of someone. In the psychoanalysis therapy the therapist can use these technique such as

• Rorschach Ink blots
• Free association test
• Dream analysis
• Resistance
• Analysis of Transference

These techniques help to discover the hidden feeling of someone's.Not only that the psychoanalysis theorey helps to discover the unconscious thinking and feeling of a person. In the above example the therapis have used the Psychoanalysis therapy and here the therapist's approach best reflects the primary goal of the Psychoanalysis therapy. Here the therapist tried to know the repressed feeling and thoughts by using the Free association technique of Psychoanalysis therapy.