Category: Why families scapegoat
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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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The 5 Tenets of Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA): The Power of Naming the Unseen.
While often confused with Narcissistic Abuse, my 20 years of clinical work, qualitative research, and peer-reviewed (published) quantitative studies have proven that FSA is a unique systemic phenomenon. It is a structural “pressure valve” used by dysfunctional family systems to maintain a false sense of stability, or “homeostasis”.