Episode 3: Language and professional terms which cover up realities of abuse

Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel - A podcast by Ruth Reymundo Mandel & David Mandel

Send us a text In this episode of Partnered with a Survivor Ruth Stearns Mandel & David Mandel discuss professional and mental health terms commonly used which hide perpetrator responsibility for patterns of abuse. They discuss how this impacts victims moving through systems which are not grounded in a practice of pivoting to focus on the perpetrator's patterns of behavior. David & Ruth also discuss viewing the effects of abuse only as a pathology, a deficit in victims and how this do...