A nurse is caring for four clients. Which client is most likely to have systematized amnesia?
A) A client who has no memory of his entire lifetime, including his personal identity.
B) A client who knows that her mother beat her as a child, but she cannot remember the details of any of the beatings.
C) A client who was driving the car in which her best friend was killed but cannot recall the accident or events since the accident.
D) A client whose home was destroyed in a tornado but only remembers hearing the tornado hit, the ambulance siren, and waking up in the hospital.
B
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