Enmeshment
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title:
Enmeshment
text:
Enmeshment is a concept in psychology and psychotherapy introduced by Salvador Minuchin to describe families where personal boundaries are diffused, sub-systems undifferentiated, and over-concern for others leads to a loss of autonomous development. According to this hypothesis, by being enmeshed in parental needs, trapped in a discrepant role function, a child may lose their capacity for self-direction; their own distinctiveness, under the weight of "psychic incest"; and, if family pressures in
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Concept in psychology and psychotherapy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enmeshment
date created:
2013-03-31T10:55:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T21:17:27Z
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