A patient expresses the desire to be cared for by others and often behaves in a helpless fashion. The patient's needs relate to which stage of psychosexual development?
a. Latency
b. Phallic
c. Anal
d. Oral
D
Fixation at the oral stage sometimes produces dependent infantile behaviors in adults. Latency fixations often result in difficulty identifying with others and developing social skills, resulting in a sense of inadequacy and inferiority. Phallic fixations result in having difficulty with authority figures and poor sexual identity. Anal fixation sometimes results in retentiveness, rigidity, messiness, destructiveness, and cruelty.
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