Watching yesterday‘s meeting with Trump, Vance, and Zelensky, I was reminded what it’s like when I see couples or families in therapy and one person in the family or a couple is being gaslit and bullied by the others.
Zelensky was what therapists call the “identified patient” (IP)— the stable one who’s called “difficult” & punished for telling the truth.
It’s very hard to help couples or families like this bc I know at that first session that if the those people aren’t willing to self-reflect or even consider what the IP is saying, there’s no hope for change.
Yesterday‘s interaction? Just like those first sessions…