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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What system of Freud's is dominated by the "talking" or "listening" cure?

2. What is one of the terms introduced that is one or a bundle of behavioral symptoms that shows something is 'wrong'?

3. How many sections of introductory material are in this book?

4. What characteristics make the "talking" or "listening" cure method most effective?

5. What is the patient nicknamed in "Obsessional Neuroses"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is specifically difficult about the subject of psychology?

2. What happens in radical transformation?

3. What does Freud say is the main concern of people's dreams dealing with psycho-therapy?

4. What are social withdrawals and irritability associated with according to Freud?

5. What do the brief expositions at the beginning of "The Theory of Sexuality" address?

6. What is "Wild" Psycho-Analysis?

7. According to Freud, what does the norm of having heterosexual parents present?

8. In what language was Freud's original work written and how might this affect Freud's work?

9. What are some of the conditions to having an effective psycho-analysis?

10. What does Freud say neuroses are linked to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do the results of the Rat Man's therapy divulge? What is important for the therapist to keep in mind when working with patient's like the Rat Man who deal with obsession? Make sure you define obsession in your response and draw support from the text for your statements.

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between pleasure the principle and the reality principle? Why do people that live under the pleasure principle confuse fantasy for fact? Give examples from the book and explain what ramifications this difference might have on a patient.

Essay Topic 3

In relation to therapy, why is it important that sometimes a patient has to forgo immediate pleasures for superior pleasure later on? Give examples from the book.

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