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Continuing Professional Education Test


Psychotherapy of the Young Adult: The Fallacy of Understanding


The purpose of the Continuing Education Exam is to demonstrate "attendance" for the award of C.E. Credit. Please give the best True or False answer to the following:

1. Levenson quotes Oscar Wilde as saying that people who did not judge by appearances are shallow.

2. The Golden Age of Psychoanalytic practice was the 1950s and 60s.

3. The model called the standard technique is the hallmark of the Interpersonal school.

4. The model called the standard technique is the hallmark of the Berlin school.

5. Sullivan was formally trained as an analyst.

6. Sullivan was influenced by the Chicago school of social thought.

7. Sullivan was an advocate of the medical model.

8. Levenson is distinguished by the suggestion that the goal of treatment is the expansion of mind.

9. Levenson is distinguished by the suggestion that the goal of treatment is the resolution of conflict.

10. Levenson is distinguished by the suggestion that the goal of treatment is the cure of symptoms.

11. Levenson's work with young adults leads him to a new paradigm.

12. Levenson's work with young adults relies on the analysts authority.

13. Levenson's work with young adults insists on the application of Eisler's parameters.

14. Levenson's work with young adults reflects application of standard technique to new populations.

15. Levenson's ideas about the inevitability of mutuality and transformation have become mainstream.

16. Levenson's ideas about the inevitability of mutuality and transformation
continue to be controversial.

17. Levenson's ideas about the inevitability of mutuality and transformation
only pertain to treating adolescents.

18. Levenson's ideas about the inevitability of mutuality and transformation
have been superceded by new developments.

19. For Levenson, analytic growth and change results from an exposition of interpretation.

20. For Levenson, analytic growth and change requires the analysts neutrality.

21. For Levenson, analytic growth and change is dependent on an unraveling of mutual experience.

22. For Levenson, analytic growth and change requires the analyst's guarding of the transference.

23. For Levenson, as the treatment unfolds patient and analyst are inexorably intertwined in an elaborate recurrence of unconscious patterns.

24. For Levenson, as the treatment unfolds the patient challenges the analyst's
authority.

25. For Levenson, as the treatment unfolds it is important that the analyst maintain an analytic posture despite patient seductions.

26. Further elaboration and development of the ideas presented can be found in
The Ambiguity of Change, The Purloined Self and The Fallacy of Understanding.

Evaluation of the Course:

1. The introduction to the paper was clear.

Yes ___ No ___

2. Lionells's commentary contributed to an understanding of Levenson's
influence in psychoanalysis.

Yes ___ No ___

3. Lionells's presentation was easy to follow.

Yes ___ No ___

4. The stated objectives were met.

Yes ___ No ___

By submitting the answers to the test questions, I attest that I have read all the material provided in this course. I understand that it is an ethical violation for anyone other than me to submit the answers under my name.

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