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.”

1. Don’t Be Well (Don’t Be Sane)
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2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.”

8. 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.

9. Thank You

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