Author Question: In the alter-ego transference, the patient seeks: a. the comfort and acceptance from the ... (Read 36 times)

itsmyluck · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

In the alter-ego transference, the patient seeks:

a. the comfort and acceptance from the therapist that his own parents failed to provide
b. to have the therapist transfer his or her best personal qualities onto the patient so that the patient's ego can be strengthened
c. to eliminate the patient's ego by considering alternative ways of behaving
d. to transfer his or her primary narcissism onto the therapist

Question 2

Kohut believed that empathy was a therapeutic technique used by therapists to:

a. collect subjective impressions about the patient's inner life
b. collect objective data about the patient's subjective inner states
c. show their patients that they viewed them dispassionately, unsympathetically, and objectively
d. convince their patients that their consciousness could not be assessed