An interesting book about betrayal blindness

Started by ah, August 02, 2018, 08:22:50 PM

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Very interesting book about "betrayal blindness" theory, how and why people who are betrayed and people who witness it seem to be so blind to it.

Some parts of it are hard to read but in a good way. For example, it suggests what might be happening to a child when the caregiver they're attached to and depend on is betraying them, and how it's their own blindness of the betrayal that helps them survive it. Really turned on its head my tendency to see my confusion as weakness.
It got me thinking and understanding abusers' accomplices / flying monkeys' blindness better, and also my own swiss cheese memory.

https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Betrayal-Ourselves-Arent-Fooled/dp/0470604409/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533240789&sr=8-1&keywords=blind+to+betrayal