Who are you today — a victim, an aggressor or a rescuer?

Who are you today — a victim, an aggressor or a rescuer?

Karpman’s collective triangle

The conditions described in the article and working with them can be used not only for independent awareness of internal processes, but also as a psychotherapeutic strategy for a psychologist working with the context of modern realities.

Against the backdrop of well-known events, people are increasingly becoming captured by three states: victim, aggressor or rescuer.

A person either continuously drifts from one state to another, plunging himself into a closed Karpman triangle, or is fixed on one of the states, turning it into a dominant complex that captures and absorbs the personality.

Let’s briefly describe these states. In the victim state, a person feels that life as it was before is impossible. He became a victim of circumstances and someone else’s decisions. He feels helpless and sad at the loss of what he used to have. If this condition begins to dominate, chronic increased anxiety, depression, apathy, and panic attacks may appear.

In the state of an aggressor, a person experiences anger, sometimes hatred, towards what led to external and internal instability. As a rule, a clear position appears. The world begins to be divided into good and evil, right and wrong, black and white. Anything that seems wrong is condemned and rejected. If this state turns into a complex, a person begins to dissolve…