Freud suggested that for those with generalized anxiety disorder, the anxiety is O free-floating. O cyclical. O repressed. completely outside of conscious awareness.
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__________ __________ is the term Freud used to describe unconscious strategies used to reduce anxiety by distorting reality and concealing the source of the anxiety from themselves.
______ is the term Freud used to describe unconscious strategies used to reduce anxiety.
Freud believed that we may block from consciousness the thoughts, wishes, feelings, or memories that are unbearably painful or unacceptable. He called this unconscious process a. free association. b. repression. c. anxiety. d. identification.
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