Know Your Safe-Goat: A Tip for Holiday Survival
Category: WELLNESS
As opposed to a family scapegoat -- an immediate family member at whom we direct unprocessed anxiety or anger -- a "safe-goat" is a person far enough outside our immediate family system at whom we can direct unprocessed anxiety or anger without inflaming conflicts between present members.
By Mark O'Connell, LCSW, Contributor
NYC-based psychotherapist in private practice and author of "M..., 2012-12-04