Author: Rebecca C. Mandeville, MA

  • 3 Bizarre Realities Adult Survivors of Family Scapegoating Abuse Experience

    3 Bizarre Realities Adult Survivors of Family Scapegoating Abuse Experience

    I’ve started a new video series in which I describe the truly bizarre realities that adult survivors of family scapegoating abuse (FSA) experience, as revealed in my FSA research and clinical practice. Have any of these things happened to you or someone you know?

  • 5 Myths About Family Scapegoating and Recovery

    5 Myths About Family Scapegoating and Recovery

    5 myths that adult survivors of family scapegoating abuse (FSA) need to know: It has been my experience, after assisting FSA adult survivors in their recovery for the past twenty years, that the five myths I’ve identified and am highlighting here in my latest video can impede one’s full healing…

  • Ten Affirmations for Adult Survivors of Family Scapegoating Abuse

    Ten Affirmations for Adult Survivors of Family Scapegoating Abuse

    One of the greatest challenges faced by adult survivors of family scapegoating abuse (FSA) is the tendency to ruminate over past painful incidents with family or be consumed by feelings of low self-worth, shame, anger, or grief. I therefore decided to create my first video volume of affirmations to help…

  • Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Public Service Announcement – Now Available on YouTube

    Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Public Service Announcement – Now Available on YouTube

    I’m sharing a short video clip excerpted and re-worked for my own use from a PSA I was asked to create for a Mental Health organization regarding the effects of family scapegoating abuse on children and adult survivors, as identified via my FSA research. To facilitate sharing, I have started…

  • Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) and the Family Projective Identification Process

    Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) and the Family Projective Identification Process

    Healing from Family Scapegoating: Family scapegoating abuse (FSA) is a horrific form of ‘invisible’ (psycho-emotional) abuse fueled by an insidious family projective identification process. Unfortunately, even psychoanalytically-oriented therapists may not be familiar with the family projective identification process unless they have received in-depth training in Family Systems theory; hence, they…

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