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Why might a young therapist in a clinic accepting Medicaid patients and serving an inner city, predominantly black community have a problem implementing psychoanalytic theory?
  1. The therapy would not be covered by the patients’ insurance.
  2. The research studies on which Freud’s theories were based used upper class white Austrian women as its samples.
  3. The psychologist would need to talk to the patients in terminology that the patients, mostly not college-educated, would not understand.
  4. The psychologist’s formal academic training focused primarily on newer theories of personality, so the psychologist would not be qualified to use psychoanalysis.
Explanation
Answer: B - The main reason why a young psychologist in a predominantly black inner city community would have a problem implementing psychoanalytic theory is that the theory’s basic principles were derived from research conducted on a non-representative sample in a study that took place back in the nineteenth century. Conclusions drawn on a sample consisting almost exclusively of upper class white Austrian women might be heavily biased and not inferable to the very different population being served by the young Afro-American psychologist at the inner-city clinic.
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