A patient with borderline disorder tells the nurse, It's hard to figure out who I am. Sometimes I'm sexually attracted to women and sometimes to men. The nurse using Freudian concepts can analyze this as a developmental problem related to:
a. Lack of separation-individuation
b. Isolation of affect during latency
c. Impaired development of sexual identity during the phallic stage
d. Overdevelopment of latency stage traits related to control issues
Question 2
The patient tells the nurse, I thought my doctor understood me completely. Now, I hate him He doesn't understand me at all. The nurse assesses the patient's description of feelings about the physician as evidence of the use of:
a. Splitting
b. Dissociation
c. Isolation of affect
d. Projective identification
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Nurse's hand over patients abdomen
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