When History Repeats: The Golden Child Gets Betrayed
About this episode
Patrick Teahan explores how abusive family dynamics can scale into larger systems and the implications of legal authority functioning like an abusive parent.
In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores a difficult and personal topic: how abusive family dynamics can scale into larger systems, and what happens when legal authority functions like an abusive parent. He introduces a framework he calls the Abusive Parent State, using trauma pattern recognition to connect family systems language to collective trauma. Rather than staying inside the usual home-based roles, Patrick widens the lens to examine how gaslighting, enforcer dynamics, and discar...
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