Jim stated during a recent therapy session that when his mother and father argue, he feels like his mother puts a lot of pressure on him to align with her and reject his father. Jim's mother is
A) working to keep the three members of the family in the primary triad.
B) experiencing a transferential reaction to Jim.
C) forming a coalition with Jim.
D) forming a triangle with Jim, leaving Jim's father excluded from the dyad of Jim and Jim's mother.

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Jim's mother is forming a triangle with Jim, leaving Jim's father excluded from the dyad of Jim and Jim's mother.

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