Steven Is a Two-And-A-Half-Year-Old Child Who Is Beginning to Unify

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Multiple Choice

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

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