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oliviahorn72 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

In traditional psychoanalysis, direct attempts to have a phobic person confront the feared situation

a) is not used because the phobia is symptomatic of underlying conflicts.
b) is not used because the patient is assumed to have no control over the avoidance.
c) is used in order to relive the original trauma that led to the phobia.
d) is used as a way of making unconscious material readily available to the individual.

Question 2

Assessment of personality among anorexics reveals that

a) Anorexics are low in neuroticism but high in anxiety.
b) Anorexics and bulimics are high on neuroticism and low in self-esteem.
c) Anorexics are low in self-esteem whereas bulimics are primarily high in neuroticism.
d) Anorexics are high in extraversion and neuroticism.