Psychologists from which school of thought would be most likely to explain that threatening thoughts are sometimes repressed?
A)structuralism
B)psychoanalytic psychology
C)humanistic psychology
D)Gestalt psychology

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Psychoanalytic psychology, founded by Sigmund Freud, emphasizes the role of unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts. Repression of threatening or painful thoughts into the unconscious is a key concept in this school of thought.

Psychologists from Which School of Thought Would Be Most Likely