Question 1

Self psychologists place great importance upon

Accepted Answer

A)  relationships. 
B)  empathy. 
C)  objective experiences. 
D)  all of the above 
E)  A and B only

Question 2

According to Kohut, drives are not primary to psychological life. Rather drives serve to ensure continuation with what is psychologically primary: ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  sex 
B)  relationships 
C)  oxygen 
D)  all of the above

Question 3

According to Kohut, when a psychotherapist labels a client as psychotic or borderline, the therapist

Accepted Answer

A)  realizes the self is completely fractured. 
B)  is not willing or able to empathize deeply enough with the client. 
C)  is not a self psychotherapist. 
D)  A and B only 
E)  none of the above

Question 4

Which of the following is the current school of psychodynamic thought that remains closest to Freud's classical psychoanalysis?

Accepted Answer

A)  Transactional analysis 
B)  Ego psychology 
C)  Self psychology 
D)  Drive theory 
E)  Object relations

Question 5

Which psychodynamic school emphasizes how the client internalized representations of
Early significant others and how those representations continue to exert an influence on the client's current experience of self, world, and others?

Accepted Answer

A)  drive theory 
B)  ego psychology 
C)  object relations 
D)  self psychology

Question 6

The basic therapeutic process in self psychology involves:

Accepted Answer

A)  reactivation of the client's need(s) (selfobject transference). 
B)  nonfulfillment of some of the client's needs by the counselor (optimal frustration/empathic failure). 
C)  reestablishment of the empathic bond between client (self) and counselor (selfobjects). 
D)  all of the above

Question 7

A client brings up the topic of believing in a god during psychotherapy. Many self psychotherapists conceptualize this belief as reflecting the selfobject need for

Accepted Answer

A)  empathic attunement. 
B)  empathic mirroring. 
C)  idealization. 
D)  twinship. 
E)  omnipotent care.

Question 8

When Kohut spoke of "experience near," he was advocating for

Accepted Answer

A)  phenomenology. 
B)  objectivity. 
C)  subjectivity. 
D)  all of the above 
E)  A and C only

Question 9

In the early stages of therapy, a self psychologist is most likely to say,

Accepted Answer

A)  "I am interested to hear how your homework went this week." 
B)  "Let everything that comes to your mind make its way to your voice." 
C)  "I want you to close your eyes and imagine this scene." 
D)  "You look very sad today." 
E)  "I heard you say you feel low-energy, but I don't think that's what is really going on."

Question 10

In self psychotherapy,

Accepted Answer

A)  clients experience positive things they did not experience in their childhoods. 
B)  therapists remain objective and disconnected from clients. 
C)  therapists become selfobjects. 
D)  all of the above 
E)  A and C only

Question 11

According to the text authors, a person with a tenuous and remote sense of self suffers from

Accepted Answer

A)  psychosis. 
B)  borderline personality disorder. 
C)  narcissistic disorder. 
D)  neurosis. 
E)  none of the above

Question 12

Which psychodynamic school primarily inquires into how the client goes about getting what she wants, as well as her patterns of defense mechanisms?

Accepted Answer