Some clinicians argue that alter personalities develop because a person needs to:

A. avoid the compulsion to engage in self-mutilating behaviors.
B. manage ongoing fears and unspecified anxiety.
C. protect themselves from the memories of traumatic childhoods.
D. provide separate identities for the voices in one's head.


Answer: C

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The initial area of impact in a closed head Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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