HeyJaredTherapolitical
A licensed marriage/family therapist and trauma clinician assesses the psychosocial intersections of politics, Christendom, abuse, and trauma.
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Trump, Republican Politics, and the Ego Defense Mechanism of Idealization (opens the original)
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So let me explain the irony I see in this hat [promoted by Trump’s son Eric in 2019 and short for “Leave Our President Alone”] as a licensed marriage and family therapist and mental health professional specializing in EMDR psychotherapy and trauma treatment. (Just hang with me here. It’ll all make sense by the end of the post.) <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ic_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media
Right-Wing Systems and Narcissistic Family Structures (opens the original)
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In their book The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment, family therapists Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman discuss the corrosive dynamics and developmental impacts of “narcissistic family systems”—family systems/structures in which the children are expected to attune to, meet, and orbit around the emotional and related needs of their parent(s), rather than the parent(s) sufficiently attuning to and meeting the emotional and other developmental needs of the children (as ap
The GOP as the Nation’s Collective Ego Defense Mechanism (opens the original)
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Speaking politically again here as a systemically trained marriage/family therapist and trauma clinician working for the past 16 years with people’s individual and collective ego defenses (or defense mechanisms)…So at the larger systemic level, I think the GOP—effectively the Party of Trump since 2016—largely functions as the nation’s collective psychosocial ego defense (or cluster of such defenses, if you will; see the graphic below). Psychologically speaking, ego defenses, or defense mechanism
I’ve Written the Foreword for This Powerful Exvangelical Memoir Published One Year Ago Today (opens the original)
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This courageously authentic, remarkably incisive, and powerfully vulnerable exvangelical memoir for which I had the privilege of writing the foreword was published one year ago today:Golden Child: My Descent to Scapegoat and Rise to Freedom, by registered nurse, nutritional therapist, and certified mind-body practitioner, Lauren Smallcomb<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!veLP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
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