Question

When the therapist encouraged herbie to talk about his problems at work, herbie changed the subject and started telling jokes. to a psychoanalytic therapist, hernie's behavior illustrates:?

Answer 1

Resistence

- mechanism wherein a patient rejects, denies, or otherwise opposes the therapeutic efforts of a psychotherapist

Answer 2

]Herbie's behavior best illustrates: Resistance
In psychoanalytic, resistance refers to any effort made by the patient in order to avoid counseling a certain topic to the psychologist.
In general, this happen due to the feeling of shame or inability to accept the fact that the topic is influencing their life ..