Did you ever feel left out, picked over, excluded, or castigated by a member of your own family or by someone close to you? Were you treated more like a stage prop growing up and pushed out like a ...

The Scapegoat, by William Holman Hunt. Source: Wikicommons The ego defense of displacement plays an important role in scapegoating, in which uncomfortable feelings such as anger, frustration, envy, ...

Like many of you, for better or worse, I doomscroll on social media occasionally. In recent weeks, this quote was posted on Instagram: “…Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of the night ...