Enmeshment is a concept introduced by Salvador Minuchin to describe families in which personal boundaries are dispersed, sub-systems are not distinguished, and excessive attention to others leads to loss of autonomous development. Engaging in the needs of parents, trapped in different role functions, a child may lose his capacity for self-direction; his own peculiarities, under the burden of psychic incest; and, if family pressure increases, may end up being identified patients or family scapegoats. Enmeshment is also used by John Bradshaw to describe a cross-generational bonding state in a family, where a child (usually of the opposite sex) becomes a surrogate partner for their mother or father.
This term is sometimes applied to swallow codependent relationships, in which unhealthy symbiosis exists.
For children who are trapped in toxins, the feelings brought by adults may be the only thing they know, surpass and surpass their own feelings.
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Remedies
Clarifying the boundaries, placing the generations in separate compartments, and finding a better balance between engagement and segregation, are all useful solutions.
At the same time, it is important that therapists avoid becoming entangled in the family subsystem itself - an unconscious feeling in helping therapist/needy clients.
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See also
References
Further reading
- Robin Skynner, One Meat, Separate (London 1976)
External links
- Enmeshment: Symptoms and Causes
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