Showing posts with label scapegoat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scapegoat. Show all posts
Monday, January 15, 2024

How Do You Handle Blame? Are You an Internalizer or an Externalizer?

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How you handle blame can tell a lot about yourself. It can also have a big impact on your personal and work-related relationships (see my ar...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Children's Roles in Dysfunctional Families

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Children of dysfunctional families are often placed in rigid roles by parents to meet the parents' narcissistic needs.  These roles don...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

The Trauma of the "Hero" in a Dysfunctional Family

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In a prior article, The Role of the Family Scapegoat in Dysfunctional Families , I wrote about the rigid roles in dysfunctional families and...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Being the Different One in Your Family

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In a prior article,   The Role of the Family Scapegoat in Dysfunctional Families , I discussed how the family scapegoat is usually made to f...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Why Is It That It's Often the Healthiest Person in a Dysfunctional Family Who Goes to Therapy?

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It's not unusual for the one person who comes to therapy from a dysfunctional family to get scapegoated by the family into feeling like ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

The Role of the Family Scapegoat in Dysfunctional Families

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The role of the child who is designated as the family scapegoat in dysfunctional families is to serve as the identified "problem" ...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Overcoming Shame in an Enmeshed Family

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In my last post, I wrote about  Overcoming Shame . In this post, I will introduce a particular aspect of the origin of shame and how it affe...