01Personhood
Victor has spent decades helping institutions speak to one another and now cannot imagine any institution speaking without condemning him. He wants to call his daughter and repair a watch he has carried since his first posting.
- Public role
- Patient / Retired Liaison Referral
- Primary function
- Patient / Witness
- Current status
- Protective voluntary admission
02Need & self-story
- Dominant need
- Separate responsibility from total self-condemnation
- Self-narrative
- If I accept the sentence before anyone speaks it, no one else has to carry the blame.
- Motivational pressure
- Guilt / duty
04Reasoning & defense
- Cognitive style
- Moral accounting and retrospective causal reconstruction
- Defenses
- Self-punishment, withdrawal, ritualized confession, emotional constriction
- Evidence caution
- This formulation preserves ordinary competence, relationships, preferences, contradiction, and future goals beyond crisis or operational utility.
08Recovery & agency
- What restores choice
- Direct risk treatment, family contact, accurate after-action evidence, and practical routine
- Agency rule
- This character remains present, capable of refusal, and able to pursue goals after the player’s immediate objective ends.
- Player obligation
- Protect the distinction between helping the person and using the person.