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     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.   
      
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      Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Reagan Mozart Pindus BioStrategist   
   	   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm   
     ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed.}---   
      [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]   
              [Yellary Clinton & Yellalot Spitzer: Nasty Together]   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)