Question

Steve is 21 years old and has never gone on a date. His parents are concerned and take him to see a therapist. The therapist tells Steve to lie down on the couch and relax. The therapist sits behind Steve and asks him to say whatever comes into his head. Steve eventually talks about his fear of women, which leads him to think about his early experiences with women: his mother, her friends, his teachers, and so on. Steve is using ______.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) free association.

Steve is 21 years old and has never gone on a date. His parents are concerned and take him to see a therapist. The therapist tells Steve to lie down on the couch and relax. The therapist sits behind Steve and asks him to say whatever comes into his head. Steve eventually talks about his fear of women, which leads him to think about his early experiences with women: his mother, her friends, his teachers, and so on. Steve is using free association.

Psychoanalytic therapy has a practice called "free association." The therapist asks the patient receiving the therapy to share thoughts freely; whatever comes to its mind. The answers had to be honest.

Sigmund Freud was the first to develop the concept of free association in 1892 to explore the unconscious.

The other options of the question were A) pole shifting, C) counterconditioning, the empty chair technique.