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?

Question

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.