Duggar Family Calls Arrests "Persecution" — A Psychotherapist Explains the Psychology

Two Duggar family members have been arrested. Joseph Duggar faces charges involving a child — charges he allegedly admitted to twice. His wife Kendra faces separate child endangerment charges after investigators reportedly found locks on the outside of their children's bedroom doors. And according to sources close to the family, some members are framing the situation as a witch hunt motivated by hostility toward their Christian faith.

Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for the first installment of a three-part conversation examining the psychology underneath the Duggar family's response. Scott has spent thirty years working with people whose religious belief systems became the primary barrier to facing what they've done — and she grew up inside a fundamentalist system herself, which she documents in her memoir Nightbird.

This conversation examines what the family's persecution framing actually reveals, what Jim Bob Duggar was building inside his family when he reportedly warned them for years that the world would be hostile to them, and what it looks like clinically when someone confesses to harming a child and immediately retreats into the same religious framework that shaped the environment where that harm occurred.

This is Part 1 of 3.

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