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Jason doesn’t see that his addiction to heroin is self-destructive. He is experiencing

a. denial.
b. displacement.
c. compulsion.
d. obsession.

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Both compulsion and obsession are about actions rather than ideas, including an idea such as self-perception. What Jason does is having a false perception of himself - he thinks that his addiction is not self-destructive. This is an example of a denial! - the answer is a)
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