Freud identified a number of defense mechanisms. It is evident that the nurse recognizes one of these common defense mechanisms for a client with dissociative identity disorder when the nurse charts that the client has used:
1. Denial.
2. Fixation.
3. Repression.
4. Rationalization.
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Rationale: Repression explains the loss of conscious awareness in dissociation. Fixation is not completing developmental tasks in earlier stages of development. Rationalization is making excuses. Denial is lack of acknowledging.
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