Summary: Scapegoating is the practice of singling out one child, employee, member of a group of peers, ethnic or religious group, or country for unmerited negative treatment or blame. Related concepts include frameup, whipping boy, jobber, sucker and fall guy.

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Scapegoating in group psychotherapy is generally seen to be an example of projective identification. The seeking of a a scapegoat in a group can be seen as a form of resistence, or defence against impulses, wishes or behaviour that needs to be repressed, denied, or in some way removed from consciousness as belonging to the self. The scapegoat may well elect himself for this role, for example, by exhibiting aggression in the group or by displaying a defence that other group members possess in perhaps a slightly different form. However, the scapegoat is always reacted to because he demonstrates traits that other group members reject.

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