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Primary Prevention

How to Be a Victim

Pages 249-251
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Prevention, often meaning early detection and cure, stems from a medical model, still in vogue in mental health circles. While valuable, certain contradictions occur with its use, and the positive, high-level functioning model takes us further in grappling with and defining conditions to avoid or cure. A paradoxical condition exists, and may be made solvable by a paradoxical approach. In order to be able to resist the effects of tragedy we need to know how the victim feels. By suggesting how to be a victim, we generate the energy to function at our most positive level.

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Mel Boyce

Mel Boyce has lived and worked in Marin County, California, for more than twenty years and was trained by Eric Berne.