A patient expresses the desire to be cared for by others and often behaves in a helpless fashion.The patient's needs relate to which stage of psychosexual development?

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Fixation at the oral stage sometimes produces dependent infantile behaviors in adults.Latency fixations often result in difficulty identifying with others and developing social skills,resulting in a sense of inadequacy and inferiority.Phallic fixations result in having difficulty with authority figures and poor sexual identity.Anal fixation sometimes results in retentiveness,rigidity,messiness,destructiveness,and cruelty.

A Patient Expresses the Desire to Be Cared for by Others