The Scapegoat, by William Holman Hunt. Source: Wikicommons The ego defense of displacement plays an important role in scapegoating, in which uncomfortable feelings such as anger, frustration, envy, ...

Very commonly it happens in families when the rest of the group – either silently and without conscious awareness or very proactively and purposefully – designate one person in that family unit as the ...

JD Vance’s repeated attacks on Haitian immigrants have fueled a common refrain from Democrats — that he and former President Donald Trump are “scapegoating” immigrants by trying to shift manufactured ...

Children who are raised in a dysfunctional family often do anything they can to survive day-to-day. Some kids align themselves with their parents as a self-protective measure, while others are put in ...