Quiz: How Humanistic and Existential Approaches Can Improve Our Treatment of Male Sexuality and Men Who Abuse (OT176-A) Quiz: How Humanistic and Existential Approaches Can Improve Our Treatment of Male Sexuality and Men Who Abuse (OT176-A) First Name * Last Name * Email * 1. To whom is the presenter indebted for their work regarding existential psychotherapy? * Laing Hollis Yalom Barker 2. What is over emphasized as an etiological factor in male sexual dysfunction? * Performance anxiety The penis Emotional distress None of the above 3. To assume that the inability to have sex is only for the sake of ___________, misses the deeper significance of reduced penile function. * a partner’s pleasure procreation sexual pleasure Both a and b 4. According to existential psychology, every person ___________ self. * needs to get in touch with his or her own Is centered in grows up unaware of his or her own All of the above 5. People need other people * with whom they can empathize. to protect them. from whom they can learn. Both a and c 6. What kind of construct is existential psychotherapy? * Relational Interactive Behavioral Adlerian 7. Relationships are elemental because they * define who we are. are inevitable. make us behave responsibly. Both a and b 8. True or false? In existential psychotherapy, relationships are secondary to individuality. * True False 9. Which of the following themes is a fundamental aspect of existential relationship work? * Responsibility Reflection on our personal way of relating to others Both a and b None of the above 10. James Hollis said the best thing we can do for our relationships is render our relationship to ourselves more * important. conscious. narcissistic. loving. 11. How did the presenter characterize the approach of Laing and Szasz? * Anti-psychiatry Medical Behavioral Anti-existential 12. For too long, psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind * from a medical perspective. from a psychoanalytic perspective. through hypnosis. merely as a mechanism. 13. Who was part of the movement to rehumanize psychiatry? * Yalom Masters and Johnson Barker Frankl 14. Who said, “The more a man tries to demonstrate his sexual potency, or a woman her ability to experience orgasm, the less they are able to succeed.” * Yalom Masters and Johnson Barker Frankl 15. What did Rollo May add to Yalom’s existential dilemma of freedom? * responsibility mortality isolation meaning 16. Which of the following is one of Yalom’s existential dilemmas? * Isolation Meaning Death All of the above 17. One key way in which existential sex therapy would differ from more mainstream approaches would be in its openness to _____________ sexual experiences and practices. * the importance of the underlying motivations for a multiplicity of possible meanings of None of the above 18. True or false? Understanding the dynamics of family of origin is often essential in humanistic-existential sex therapy. * True False 19. According to James Cantor et al. (2013), the major models for understanding and treating hypersexuality employ a ___________ approach. * humanistic one size fits all solution-focused non-evidence-based 20. Who said, “If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” * Mickey Mantle Irvin Yalom Sigmund Freud Charles Darwin 21. What did Yalom describe as “death defeating”? * Having children Making money Sex Sleep 22. In the case examples offered by the presenter, all clients who self-identified as “sex addicts” said their uncontrolled sexual behavior * became a problem when their wife caught them cheating. began after a death-anxiety triggering event. dates back to adolescence. ruined their professional life. 23. Diagnosis and treatment on the basis of symptoms misses the __________ of these symptoms and behaviors. * meaning importance result None of the above 24. Existential psychotherapy looks to ___________, not the sexual behavior per se. * soothe the death-anxiety treat the client eliminate the sexual fantasies All of the above 25. The death anxiety of many people is fueled by * disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. hypersexuality. the death of their spouse. a desire for immortality. Submit If you are human, leave this field blank. Δ