Author Question: For Wachtel, pejorative interpretations can be minimized and therapeutic communications can be ... (Read 79 times)

Tazate · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

For Wachtel, pejorative interpretations can be minimized and therapeutic communications can be enhanced by:

a. maximal use of action-oriented behavioral strategies that avoid exploration of internal conflicts.
b. very minimal use of interpretive interventions.
c. use of in-session demonstrations of vicious cycles in the therapy relationship itself.
d. initial use of externalization of responsibility.

Question 2

Wachtel's phrase, You can't go far in neutral, refers to:

a. the limitations of the psychoanalytic therapy relationship.
b. the client's tendency to resist action in favor of insight.
c. the pervasive role of vicious cycles in maintaining anxiety problems.
d. the dangers of interfering with the transference relationship.