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Scapegoating and Therapeutic Storytelling Intervention
Author(s) -
Clarkson Hugh,
Phillips Ron
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2006.tb00685.x
Subject(s) - scapegoating , humanity , storytelling , intervention (counseling) , psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , project commissioning , publishing , political science , narrative , psychiatry , art , law , literature , politics
Scapegoating is an interpersonal process which is as old as humanity. It offers a means of protecting a social group from disintegration, but at the cost of blaming one individual for having a problem which he or she cannot then fix. Family therapy attempts to unravel the scapegoating process and address the underlying difficulty, but often fails because the family responds fearfully and reasserts the scapegoating. Therapeutic Storytelling Intervention (TSI), among other things, offers a means of adding individual therapy to family therapy without reinforcing scapegoating.