Anne is looking for a treatment of her phobia, so she consults a psychoanalyst and a behavioral psychologist. She receives recommendations that are quite different

The behavioral psychologist suggests a program to rid her of her phobia in a relatively brief amount of time. How will the psychoanalyst view such a proposed treatment?
a) Removing the phobia without dealing with the underlying conflict will lead to symptom substitution.
b) The phobia can be removed only after a detailed analysis of Anne's nightmares over the last few years.
c) We must admit that drug treatments seem to be more effective for phobias than the various forms of psychotherapy.
d) It took years to develop the phobia, thus it is so well entrenched that it is not likely to respond to any form of therapy.

A

Psychology

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