Dont be well injunction

Don’t Be Well (Don’t Be Sane)Injunction

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Don’t Be Well (Don’t Be Sane)

Imagine that mother and father are two busy people, both out all day working. They love their daughter but don’t have much energy to give her attention when they get home in the evenings and she comes back from the day care.

Don’t Be Well (Don’t Be Sane)

Then she gets ill. Mother

takes time off work to

look after her sick

daughter. Father does

what he is seldom done

before and reads her

stories while she falls

asleep at night.

Don’t Be Well (Don’t Be Sane)

In her astute little professor, the little girl stores away the conclusion: “To get the attention I want around here, I have to be ill.” Without realizing it or intending it, her parents have given her the injunction Don’t be well.

Don’t Be Well (Don’t Be Sane)

If she complies with this

message in grown up life,

their daughter may use

the scripty strategy of

getting sick whenever

things go wrong in her

relationship or at work.

Don’t Be Well (Don’t Be Sane)

Some times, Don’t be

well is given by

attribution as when

parents continually tell a

child’s relatives and

neighbors: “ This one

isn't strong, you know.”

Don’t Be Well (Don’t Be Sane)

The variant Don’t be sane is often modeled for the child by a psychotic parent or relative. The child may only get attention if he acts crazy enough. This injunction may be made more potent by unspoken rules about how insanity is to be passed on in a particular family.

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