Identified patient
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Identified patient, or "IP", is a term used in a clinical setting to describe the person in a dysfunctional family who has been subconsciously selected to act out the family's inner conflicts in order to keep attention focused on an element that lies outside of the core conflict - who is 'often the split-off carrier of a breakdown in the entire family system...transgenerational'.
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See also
- Dysfunctional family
- Family therapy
- Martti Olavi Siirala
- Münchausen syndrome by proxy
- Narcissistic parents
- Psychological projection
- Role suction
- Sacrificial lamb
- Scapegoating
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