Dr. Hart is a psychoanalyst treating a patient with dissociative identity disorder. He will probably explain the loss of memory in his patient as being due to ____.
A) the attention the patient receives for being so forgetful
B) excessive id control and a lack of superego
C) equally weak ego and id
D) extreme repression in the face of intense anxiety

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Psychoanalytic theory, which is the foundation of psychoanalysis, posits that dissociative identity disorder and related memory loss can be a result of extreme repression used as a defense mechanism to cope with intense anxiety or trauma.

Dr Hart Is a Psychoanalyst Treating a Patient with Dissociative