• Psychology term describing an individual, usually a child or teen, in a [dysfunctional family] who:

    Gets scapegoated and blamed for a familys problems
    Has emotional problems that are not a mental illness, but a normal response to the stress of dealing with an unhealthy family in denial
    Blows the whistle on a [dysfunctional familys] problems

    Phrase originated because family [therapists] recognized that the child identified as the patient is not necessarily the one who is sick.


    Identified patient meaning & definition 1 of Identified patient.

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