PATHOGENIC ENMESHMENT for Newbies

Let us look at what happens in the Child in the run-up to Splitting. The childhood experiences between the Targeted Parent and the Child are disrupted through lack of contact. At the same time the Alienating Parent continues presenting the Child with views of the Targeted Parent which emanate from putting that Parent into the Narrative of the Alienating Parent’s subconscious delusion. The descriptions of the Targeted Parent’s self and actions do not match the Child’s own memories of the good enough loving Targeted Parent. Instead the Targeted Parent is portrayed as Unloving, Unsafe and Unavailable. This causes a horrible Cognitive Dissonance in the mind of the Child. This is horrible for the Child

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