Scapegoating Archives - Berkeley Group Therapy Institute

A Mental Health Clinician Calls on the U.S. to Confront Aggressive Scapegoating

Written by Bill Roller on January 11, 2021. Posted in Scapegoating, The New Heroism.

The Scapegoater-in-chief

In the current political climate of our nation, the politics of fear and gratuitous aggressive scapegoating have become the norm.

The Task Leader in the White House has become the Scapegoater-in-chief. This affects the norms of behavior for the country at large but also affects the patients we work with in our practice.

Confronting Aggressive Scapegoating in the Family and Society

Written by Bill Roller on September 10, 2020. Posted in Family Therapy, Scapegoating.

Scapegoating is always a group phenomenon. How do you stop it in your family and community?

It’s Happening in the Nation

There is a psychological and sociological phenomenon that is rife in our political, family, and social context today. Scapegoating is the process of social exclusion that begins with the projection of negative attributes and traits onto one person or a class of persons with the intent of rejecting their right of membership in the group. Such projection arouses fears of rejection and annihilation in those who are scapegoated.

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