Petula's Mother Has a Terminal Illness and She Is Not

question 13

Multiple Choice

Petula's mother has a terminal illness and she is not expected to live more than a few weeks. Petula just placed her in hospice. Petula told her romantic partner, Sarah, that she felt guilty and that she felt she was abandoning her mother. Sarah responded by saying, ÒWell, everyone has to die sometime.Ó What perspective from your text helps us understand Sarah's response?

• A) intimacy process model
• B) attachment theory
• C) self-expansion model
• D) capitalization

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Definitions:

Masculine Side

The collection of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with boys and men, as determined by societal norms.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies unconsciously used to protect oneself from anxiety by denying and distorting reality.

Reaction Formation

Psychological defense mechanism in which a person forms an opposite emotional or behavioral reaction to the way he or she really feels to keep those true feelings hidden from self and others.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.