In Kohut’s empathic introspective model, defense and resistance are viewed as

a) normal attempts at self-protection in a person anticipating pain and injury.
b) normal attempts of the superego to protect the ego and the id from harm.
c) abnormal attempts at self-sabotage that can be corrected with psychoanalysis.
d) abnormal attempts to create attachment based on attunement between the self and the self-object.


Answer: a) normal attempts at self-protection in a person anticipating pain and injury.

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