In certain families one can find several “inductees” grouped around one influential “inductor.” I have observed the case of a forever complaining old lady, living with her married daughter, who attracted and shut everybody, mother, father, and two daughters, into the closed circle of their mutual and reciprocal lamentations.
1956, Charles Odier, Anxiety and Magic Thinking, New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, Inc., page 281