One goal of Kernberg's object-relations psychotherapy for borderline personality is to overcome the patient's defence of

a) seeing others as all powerful and all good.
b) splitting the world into black and white terms.
c) marginalizing their involvement with others.
d) denying impulses toward self-actualization.


b

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a. almost always improves performance, because it stimulates competition b. almost always hinders performance, because it elicits evaluation apprehension c. has mixed effects, because it elicits evaluation apprehension d. has mixed effects, because it elicits a person's dominant response

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All of the following have been shown to be associated with suppressed immune system functioning except

A. prolonged marital conflict. B. extended periods of caring for elderly relatives. C. unemployment. D. an increase in natural killer cells.

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According to Masters and Johnson, there are ____ phases in the sexual response cycle.

a. 10 b. 2 c. 6 d. 4

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Females have a higher rate of than males

A) ?mood disorders B) ?alcoholism C) ?antisocial behavior D) ?all of these

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