Question

In therapy, psychoanalysts try to trace unconscious factors that are the source of personal difficulty back to their historical source. Which of the following is an example of typical historical source that a psychoanalyst and his or her client might uncover during therapy?

an oral fixation

failure to overcome "trust vs mistrust"( my answer)

a lack of contact comf0rt in infancy

maternal deprivation

Answer 1

That answer would be typical of an Eriksonian psychoanalyst.