Category: Scapegoat Recovery
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Beyond the ‘Identified Patient’: The Structural Reality of Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA)
Family Scapegoating Abuse may lead to the creation of the IP in families, but it is certainly not passive. It is instead a dynamic, targeted, active and persistent mechanism of systemic identity overwrite and attempted erasure.
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Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA): A Summary of Peer-Reviewed Research and Clinical Validation
The field of trauma and family systems theory has reached a critical inflection point, driven by the quantitative evidence emerging on the insidious systemic phenomenon I named Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA). This archive serves to present the key findings from the high-impact peer-reviewed studies co-authored with Dr. Kartheek R. Balapala and his team of research scholars, in particular…
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Radical Acceptance and Scapegoat Recovery: The Power of Accepting What IS
Releasing attachment to highly charged emotions and events does not mean that one is “giving up” on themselves or “giving in” to abuse from others. It is simply a process that supports people in coping with past and/or current life circumstances that cannot be changed and that they are powerless over.
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When Abusers Depower the Scapegoat Child (What My Research Revealed)
Have you ever been called crazy or emotionally or mentally ill by members of your own family, either to your face or behind your back? If so, you’re not alone, as my latest research results on this particular aspect of family scapegoating abuse (FSA) attests…
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