The modern Olympic games were designed, in part, as an attempt to have nations compete and act out their aggression towards each other in a controlled, sporting environment. It was therefore an attempt to apply the Freudian principle of

a. projection.
b. catharsis.
c. displacement.
d. denial.

Answer: b: catharsis.

Psychology

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Goals for the treatment of dissociative identity disorder include:

a) Firm limits on socially inappropriate behaviour. b) Maximum personal growth of each alter. c) Integration of the several personalities. d) Reliving the trauma that led to the problem.

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