Pink Freud

Gaslighting: don’t light yourself on fire

In Part 1 of Gaslighting mini-podcast series, a mental health definition of gaslighting is explained. Knowing How to spot the behaviors that indicate gaslighting is crucial for anyone in all different types of relationships at home, with friends and at work. How do we spot this behavior and what do we do to protect ourselves against it? In this episode, licensed professional counselor and trauma professional Whitney Scheef-Fleishman, MA, LPC Introduces this insidious behavior and give several...

Dysfunctional and Narcissistic Family Tree: the roles we play and why me?

This episode provides a straightforward overview of the family roles each person is assigned to play when a member of a narcissistic, addicted or dysfunctional family. I also feel that understanding these roles helps to understand the pain that you experience as an adult that may have come from your family of origin, depending on what role you were assigned. This episode will be helpful for any parents, anyone who has come from a family that was dysfunctional, or a person merely looking to ga...

Narcissists: How the Bad Apple spoils the whole bunch In family systems

Although narcissism has become an increasingly popular topic of discussion, how many of us actually understand from a psychological standpoint what narcissism is? Going even further, how many understand how to recognize narcissistic behavior? Do most People even understand what it means if somebody has narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism and NPD are often at the heart of most situations of abuse and family dysfunction. On this episode of Pink Freud, licensed counselor and trau...

Mental Health Plague: Dysfuctional Family Systems

In the premier episode of Pink Freud Podcast, we introduce the view taken by many familiy systems counselors, discussing how dysfunctional fam ily issues we may have growing up can result in long-term emotional difficulties for adults from these family systems.  This premiere episode is an introduction to the silent issue of psychologically neglectful, damaging and abusive family systems. This is a silent issue that I see creeping into families all across the nation, that result in broken hom...

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