A patient with a major depressive disorder has recently been terminated from a job and has no idea what to do since the patient's identification of self was through work. Which psychological theorist best describes the patient's current identification of self?
1. Erik Erikson
2. William James
3. Abraham Maslow
4. Harry Stack Sullivan
2. William James
Explanation:
William James established the framework for modern psychology and psychiatry that attends to the person as both one who experiences and is aware of the process of experiencing. It is this concept that explains how a loss of a job may lead to a sense of loss of self. The other theorists listed did not develop the concept linking loss of self to certain meaningful losses such as the loss of a job or moving away from a well-loved community.
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