Symptomträger

English translation: symptom carrier

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German term or phrase:Symptomträger
English translation:symptom carrier

13:09 Jul 22, 2004
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology / Family therapy
German term or phrase: Symptomträger
This is from a psychiatric academic article: "Die aggressiven Jugendlichen wurden als Symptomträger beispielweise für Kommuniationsschwierigkeiten im Netz der Spielregeln der ganzen Familie gesehen."

Does this mean scapegoat?
Ann Marie
symptom carrier
Explanation:
seems to be less prevalent in English, but used nonetheless.

Fixed Role Therapy, Trying a New Lifestyle - Psychological Self ...
... In a similar way, a family therapy team may reframe or re-define the "symptom-carrier's" problem behavior into a positive, desirable trait and then recommend ...
mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap14/chap14l.htm - 19k

Re: alienated daughter attempts suicide
... This is a traumatic bond, after all. If, as you suspect, your daughter has become a Symptom Carrier for the dysfunctional family (ie. ...
www.parentalalienation.com/_disc1/000001e8.htm - 5

SELF Therapeutic Center
... a dysfunctional family. The substance dependent is only the symptom carrier of what is going wrong in the family. Indeed, where ...
www.selftc.com/family.html - 22k - Supplemental Result

Our Values Shape Our Character and Culture - The CLEMMER Group ...
... The person on the front serving line is a symptom carrier, not the source of the problem." - Jim Clemmer, Firing on All Cylinders ...
www.clemmer-group.com/excerpts/values_shape.shtml - 25k

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Note added at 50 mins (2004-07-22 13:59:55 GMT)
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ps: a scapegoat is a Sündenbock in German.
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writeaway
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A very helpful answer -- thank you! I appreciate the citations you provided; they gave me extra ammunition to convince the author that symptom carrier is indeed the correct academic term.
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Symptomträger
symptom carrier


Explanation:
seems to be less prevalent in English, but used nonetheless.

Fixed Role Therapy, Trying a New Lifestyle - Psychological Self ...
... In a similar way, a family therapy team may reframe or re-define the "symptom-carrier's" problem behavior into a positive, desirable trait and then recommend ...
mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap14/chap14l.htm - 19k

Re: alienated daughter attempts suicide
... This is a traumatic bond, after all. If, as you suspect, your daughter has become a Symptom Carrier for the dysfunctional family (ie. ...
www.parentalalienation.com/_disc1/000001e8.htm - 5

SELF Therapeutic Center
... a dysfunctional family. The substance dependent is only the symptom carrier of what is going wrong in the family. Indeed, where ...
www.selftc.com/family.html - 22k - Supplemental Result

Our Values Shape Our Character and Culture - The CLEMMER Group ...
... The person on the front serving line is a symptom carrier, not the source of the problem." - Jim Clemmer, Firing on All Cylinders ...
www.clemmer-group.com/excerpts/values_shape.shtml - 25k

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Note added at 50 mins (2004-07-22 13:59:55 GMT)
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ps: a scapegoat is a Sündenbock in German.

writeaway
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Grading comment
A very helpful answer -- thank you! I appreciate the citations you provided; they gave me extra ammunition to convince the author that symptom carrier is indeed the correct academic term.
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