In therapy, psychoanalysts try to trace unconscious factors that are the source of personal difficulty back to their historical source. Which of the following is an exmple of typical historical source that a psychoanalyst and his or her client might uncover during therapy?

A. an oral fixation
B. failure to overcome "trust vs. mistrust"
C. a lack of contact in infancy
D maternal deprivation

Question

In therapy, psychoanalysts try to trace unconscious factors that are the source of personal difficulty back to their historical source. Which of the following is an exmple of typical historical source that a psychoanalyst and his or her client might uncover during therapy?

A. an oral fixation
B. failure to overcome "trust vs. mistrust"
C. a lack of contact in infancy
D maternal deprivation

anonymous · Answer

@halorazer

anonymous · Answer

Well I mean, which one do you think?

anonymous · Answer

i thought B, because i feel like if you have trust issues someone has lead you up to not trust people

anonymous · Answer

Well, trust vs. mistrust was a stage running from birth until 1.5 years in Erikson's Psychosocial Stages.

anonymous · Answer

I'm thinking D now

anonymous · Answer

Maternal deprivation is basically when babies grow up without a maternal (motherly) figure in their lives. So I mean, if I had to guess, it would be D. Freud and other psychoanalysts believed that problems in adulthood stemmed from essentially a broken home.