Multiple Choice
A client diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID) switches personalities when confronted with destructive behavior.The nurse recognizes that this dissociation serves which function?
A) It is a means to attain secondary gain.
B) It is a means to explore feelings of excessive and inappropriate guilt.
C) It serves to isolate painful events so that the primary self is protected.
D) It serves to establish personality boundaries and limit inappropriate impulses.
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