Before revision: Often a child, this is "the split-off false carrier of a breakdown in the entire family system," which may be a transgenerational disturbance or trauma.Peter L. Rudnytsky, Reading Psychoanalysis (2002) p. 44 While the idea has been branched into meanings far beyond Jung's original understanding, some modern authors continue to use the term in reference to focus point of an accusing family who all suffer mental illness, rather than the individual the family identifies as mentally ill – positing that the IP may actually be the least troubled member of a dysfunctional family nexus.Mary Barnes and Joseph Berke, Mary Barnes Penguin 1974) p. 84 In organizational management The term is also used in analyzing dysfunction in businesses where an individual becomes the carrier of a group problem.
After revision: Often a child, this is "the split-off false carrier of a breakdown in the entire family system," which may be a transgenerational disturbance or trauma.Peter L. Rudnytsky, Reading Psychoanalysis (2002) p. 44 While the idea has been branched into meanings far beyond Jung's original understanding, some modern authors continue to use the term in reference to focus point of an accusing family who all suffer mental illness, rather than the individual the family identifies as mentally ill – positing that the IP may actually be the least troubled member of a dysfunctional family nexus.Mary Barnes and Joseph Berke, Mary Barnes Penguin 1974) p. 84