What part do affect blocks play in existential psychotherapy?

a. Affect blocks are people who prevent the client from feeling emotions. In therapy, the client learns how to manage relationships with these people.
b. One goal of existential psychotherapy is dissolving affect blocks, which are places where the client gets emotionally stuck.
c. Affect blocks are processes through which a client goes in existential psychotherapy, rather like building blocks.
d. Affect blocks are anything in the client’s life that prevent the client from self-actualizing.


Answer: b

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