Steven is a two-and-a-half-year-old child who is beginning to unify the good and the bad aspects of his mother with the image of her as a separate entity in the external world. He is also beginning to develop a stable sense of "me." Mahler would describe Steven as in the _____ phase of the separation-individuation process.
a) consolidation
b) rapprochement
c) normal symbiosis
d) practicing
Ans: a) consolidation
Psychology
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A) visible; invisible B) invisible; visible C) mental; physical D) physical; mental
Psychology