Acentral therapeutic technique of psychoanalysis isa. free association. b. systematic desensitization. c. operant conditioning. d. active listening.

The answer is: free association.

In psychoanalysis, free associations refers to allowing the patient to share anything they have in their mind.

When the patient speak their mind freely, the psychiatrists can take up a couple of clues that come out from the patient's thought in order to understand the type and the root of their psychological problems

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