Question

James has flunked out of high school, has severed all of his ties with family and friends, and has no sense of where he is headed. he also seems to have significant disruptions in his sense of time (some things seem to happen much faster than they really do). according to erikson, james is experiencing:

Answer 1

James is experiencing identity diffusion. The identity diffusion enables a person to be confused in terms of finding out or figuring his or herself out in terms of his or her identity. It usually comes in the period of adolescence and could be seen above as James has no sense of where he is going to because of the things that happened to his past.