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Title: Defense mechanisms A) make a person feel more anxious and have more problems, because they begin ...
Post by: jazziefee on Jun 22, 2018
Defense mechanisms
 
  A) make a person feel more anxious and have more problems, because they begin to act defensively.
  B) are strategies the id uses to try to achieve what it desires.
  C) help a person feel less anxious, but because they usually work by distorting reality, they are not
  always adaptive.
  D) are conscious, intentional attempts to cope in an effective way with an anxiety provoking event.

Question 2

A quantitative analysis of 26 efficacy studies of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy found that
 
  A) the interpersonal forms of treatment are among the least useful.
  B) those which stress traditional psychoanalytic principles have the highest degree of success.
  C) results of this therapy are largely unsuccessful.
  D) results of this therapy are quite impressive.
Title: Defense mechanisms A) make a person feel more anxious and have more problems, because they begin ...
Post by: mirabriestensky on Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D