The nurse is caring for patient who has major depressive disorder who has recently been terminated from his job. The patient tells the nurse, "I just don't know what to do. I identified myself through my work. I don't know who I am anymore." Which psychological theorist best describes the patient's current identification of self?

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2. William James established the framework for modern psychology and psychiatry that attends to the person as both one who experiences and is aware of the process of experiencing. It is this concept that explains how a loss of a job may lead to a sense of loss of self. The other theorists listed did not develop the concept linking loss of self to certain meaningful losses such as the loss of a job or moving from a well-loved community.

The Nurse Is Caring for Patient Who Has Major Depressive