0 present participle of enmesh
1 to catch or involve someone in something unpleasant or dangerous from which it is difficult to escape:
Overly diffuse boundaries may involve enmeshing or controlling interaction patterns.
Like enmeshing triads, the interaction patterns of controlling triads can involve structural boundary dissolution.
The enmeshing pattern involves a parent's attempt to "pull in" the child to meet his or her needs, without respecting the child's personal or psychological space.
Hostile parental behavior often accompanies controlling and enmeshing parental behavior.
It was anticipated also that girls, more than boys, who experience enmeshing or emotionally disengaged family interactions during toddlerhood would display symptoms of depression during middle childhood.
Next, two separate hierarchical regressions were conducted to analyze whether gender differences moderated the relation between enmeshing family interactions and depressive symptoms and between emotional disengagement and depressive symptoms.
They are enmeshing businesses and savings in a web of regulations and extra taxes.
None of the lawful nets are designed to catch fish by enmeshing them.
