The language of "victim playing" has entered modern corporate life, as a weapon of use even for the most competent of professionals.

The Bandić self-victimization was ultimately not well received by both the voters and the media.

Though being victimized by others is seldom amusing, awareness of one's self-victimization can be both comic and cathartic, he said.

"It's a mentality of self-victimization," Mr. Rosenblum said in an interview.

It examines the themes of literary alienation from the environment, and the notion of a national obsession with Canadian "self-victimization."

After his mournful howl, he remains the only man alive, forced to face his own self-victimization and the destruction of his kingdom.

Those were the tours that confirmed his celebrity and certified his dissolution, as lionization proved to be a crucial step in his self-victimization.

The poems display his rebellious attitude, self-victimization and strong reliance on autobiographical elements, centering on such episodes as the death of his father.

They are stressed, so they tend to escape reality, place blame on a third person, refuse to take responsibility for personal problems, and have a tendency towards self-victimization or self-pity.

“Spitzer’s forthrightness, and his refusal to engage in self-victimization, blame casting or excuse-making is far too striking to go without notice in Detroit at this time,” the Free Press editorial said.

Victim playing (also known as playing the victim or self-victimization) is the fabrication of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse of others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy or attention seeking.

The model is divided in half by a line that "separates success from failure," with Above The Line being the area of "accountability and success" and Below The Line being the area "self-victimization and failure."

It is lamentable to them that women embrace what they perceive as glib new age fads, cultural relativism under the ambit of multiculturalism, subtle misandry masquerading behind feminism, a subculture of self-victimization and vanity, which they attribute to Oprah.

As part of a psychic defence mechanism, 'the omnipotence betrayed by the "fixed fantasy" underlying self-victimization or other forms of self-defeating behaviour...creates the illusory sense that they are actively producing the abandonment [&] pain', rather than merely suffering it passively - 'arranging deceits.

According to the critic Maciej Górny, describing the book's role in the complexity of subsequent events of Polish history, it became "one of the main Polish narratives of the Second World War, appealing to sentiments of national heroism as well as contributing to symbolic self-victimization."