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Psychology term describing an individual, usually a child or teen, in a dysfunctional family who: 1) Gets scapegoated and blamed for a family's problems 2) Has emotional problems that are not a mental illness, but a normal response to the stress of dealing with an unhealthy family in denial 3) Blows the whistle on a dysfunctional family's problems Phrase originated because family therapists recognized that the child "identified" as the patient is not necessarily the one who is sick.
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