Question

Melissa is fearful of men and refuses to go on dates. Her therapist suggests that she is fearful because she was sexually abused when she was young. The therapist's suggestion most clearly reflects a ________ perspective.

a.) humanistic

b.) behavioral

c.) biological

d.) psychoanalytic

e.) sociocultural

Answer 1

The correct answer is D.

The therapist's suggestion most clearly reflects a psychoanalytic perspective.

The psychoanalytic perspective or psychoanalysis, created by Sigmund Freud, believes that conflicts and emotional turmoil within us stems from our unconscious mind and repressed emotions and experiences that happened to us in our childhood. The purpose of psychoanalytic therapy is to make the unconscious conscious in order to understand why we are the way we are and then work through those repressed emotions.