> Yet business schools teach psychology as a way of coping with
> the world. Many times, you can't understand your boss without it!
>
> I had a peculiar round-tour of the "psy" fields. When I took physiology,
> the first week was neurology and the professor bombarded us with more
> readings that the other four professors (cardio, pulmo, renal, digestive). I
> hated him for that, but as the field is very much in bloom, I later thanked
> him, unfortunately he passed away. I recently met Nobelate Eric Kandel and we
> reminisced and he said "Yes, he was like that!"
>
> The next semester I was in business school and took organisational behavior
> (and later conflict management) by a professor who was a protoge of (then Scy
> State) George Shulz. By and large I continued to accept the business-school
> psychology-sociology model and used it in my career. Then a science book club
> sent me a book from a prominent professor from my alma mater, Personality
> Self_Portrait. A decade after business school it was a revelation! Wow!
> That's why so and so did that! Now, I admit, I'm a bioengineer (chemical
> engineer, fluid mechanics..), I prefer the HARD science of psychIATRY to
> the soft science of psychOLOGY. I can't stand how psychologists and
> sociologists keep changing the vocabulary to suit their theories.
>
> The problem with the old industrial psychology model is it described the
> perfect person. Not really even that, it described the subject perfectly
> compliant with the whims of the researcher (usually with a way too small
> sample size). Ten years after b-school, I knew quite well that different
> individuals responded differently. Now, mind you, there are hosts of ethical
> questions. If you know what is wrong with someone, what's to keep you from
> manipulating it. And personality type is a wide spectrum - everyone has two
> of twelve personality types, but they can become short term psychoses or long
> term disorders. Still, usually one develops a psychosis of the same type as
> one's personality.
>
> Personality is the human alternative to instinct. The human is the only
> mind not born fully developed. Instead of instinct, it forms persoanlity in
> order to be more adaptible. Undestanding personality helps you steer clear of
> people who could be trouble, avoid transfering to a boss who will destroy
> you, but there is no question it can also allow you to manipulate the
> problems of others. It can also allow you to help them. In the long run if
> everone undestood these things, the evil ones would be more easily
> avoided. Therefore, I strongly believe psychiatry should be taught in grade
> school and individuals should be tested for it, and made to understand the
> result. You say, it's an invasion of privacy? Well, Microsoft Beijing
> believes it can detect a searcher's gender. There are ways of detecting your
> personality by the color scheme you chose on your desktop. There is no way to
> prevent this. I also believe individuals "souls" are superior to their
> personalities and can harness the physical lot they have been given. My late
> dad was paranoid and many times didn't understand this, but when he did, he
> bravely tried to fight it, because he wanted so much to beat it. His moral
> compunction overroad his pyshical personality predisposition.
>
> - = -
> Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Reagan Mozart Pindus BioStrategist
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
> ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
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