Scapegoat Books

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Growing Up as the Scapegoat to a Narcissistic Parent: A Guide to Healing Growing Up as the Scapegoat to a Narcissistic Parent: A Guide to Healing (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 102 ratings — published
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Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 35 ratings — published
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Don't Date Rosa Santos Don't Date Rosa Santos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,333 ratings — published 2019
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The Whipping Boy Study Guide The Whipping Boy Study Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2001
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Strangers and Scapegoats: Extending God’s Welcome to Those on the Margins Strangers and Scapegoats: Extending God’s Welcome to Those on the Margins (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21 ratings — published
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Goat for Yahweh, Goat for Azazel: The Impact of Yom Kippur on the Gospels Goat for Yahweh, Goat for Azazel: The Impact of Yom Kippur on the Gospels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
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Scapegoating in Families: Intergenerational Patterns of Physical and Emotional Abuse Scapegoating in Families: Intergenerational Patterns of Physical and Emotional Abuse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 1991
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Job: The Victim of His People Job: The Victim of His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 4.03 — 115 ratings — published 1985
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E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone, #5) E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,888 ratings — published 1988
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Escape Goat Escape Goat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 3.86 — 645 ratings — published 2020
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A Secret History of Witches A Secret History of Witches (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 3.84 — 24,275 ratings — published 2017
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The Guest Room The Guest Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 3.70 — 33,270 ratings — published 2016
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The Passion of Mary Magdalen (Maeve Chronicles, #2) The Passion of Mary Magdalen (Maeve Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,264 ratings — published 2006
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The King's Mistress The King's Mistress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,335 ratings — published 2009
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John Doyle Lee John Doyle Lee (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scapegoat)
avg rating 4.24 — 45 ratings — published 1964
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Archizines Archizines (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
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Rebecca C. Mandeville
“Recovering from family scapegoating requires recognizing that being the ‘identified patient’ is symptomatic of generations of systemic dysfunction within one’s family, fueled by unrecognized anxiety and even trauma. In a certain sense, members of a dysfunctional family are participating in a ‘consensual trance‘, i.e., a ‘survival trance’ supported by false narratives, toxic shame, anxiety, and egoic defense mechanisms, such as denial and projection.”
Rebecca C. Mandeville, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Understanding Family Scapegoating Abuse

“Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation under a blanket of forgetfulness-and not confronting it head-on. It's humiliating to remember the ways in which one demeaned oneself in order to prevent being in a mother's bad graces, the willingness to do anything in order to not be rejected, when rejection felt like death.”
Victoria Secunda, When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

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