The tendency of the therapist to react to the patient on the basis of the therapist's narcissistic ...

The tendency of the therapist to react to the patient on the basis of the therapist's narcissistic needs and conflicts is called:
 
  a. ego-ideal transference
  b. countertransference
  c. cohesive self transference
  d. idealizing transference

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Question 2

In the alter-ego transference, the patient seeks:
 
  a. the comfort and acceptance from the therapist that his own parents failed to provide
  b. to have the therapist transfer his or her best personal qualities onto the patient so that the patient's ego can be strengthened
  c. to eliminate the patient's ego by considering alternative ways of behaving
  d. to transfer his or her primary narcissism onto the therapist

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Question 3

Kohut believed that empathy was a therapeutic technique used by therapists to:
 
  a. collect subjective impressions about the patient's inner life
  b. collect objective data about the patient's subjective inner states
  c. show their patients that they viewed them dispassionately, unsympathetically, and objectively
  d. convince their patients that their consciousness could not be assessed

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Question 4

In terms of its scientific worth, Kohut's theory:
 
  a. is not very comprehensive
  b. is highly heuristic
  c. has very strong empirical validity
  d. has no applied value

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Question 5

Morf and Rhodewalt examined individual differences in unhealthy narcissism and performance on a competitive task and found:
 
  a. that study participants higher in narcissism rated their opponents' personalities much more negatively than participants lower in narcissism under both high and low threat conditions.
  b. that participants higher in narcissism rated their opponents' personalities much more negatively than participants lower in narcissism under high threat conditions
  c. that participants higher in narcissism rated their opponents' personalities much more positively than participants lower in narcissism under high threat conditions
  d. no differences between participants higher and lower in narcissism in their evaluations of their opponents' personalities.

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Question 6

In a longitudinal study of college women approximately 20 years after their graduation, Wink found that healthy narcissists reported:
 
  a. personal discomfort in their 30s when they were first trying to juggle the demands of family and career
  b. a continued commitment to a relatively low status but highly satisfying career.
  c. more satisfaction with their careers but less satisfaction with their roles as mothers
  d. less drug dependence and good marriages and careers