The nurse witnesses different personalities emerging in the client with dissociative identity disorder (DID). The primary personality is referred to as the:
a. Host
b. Alter
c. Ego
d. Identity
A
The host is the term for the primary personality, which may not be aware of the alters (the other personalities). Ego is one component of the three-part theory of the ego, id, and super-ego identified by Sigmund Freud when referring to his belief of how personalities are structured. Identity refers to how one sees oneself.
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