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Such mental fatigue can be as threatening as a heart attack. Recent evidence indicates that drowsiness is a leading cause of traffic fatalities and industrial mishaps. "Human error causes between 60% and 90% of all workplace accidents, depending on the type of job," observes biological psychologist David Dinges of the University of Pennsylvania. "And inadequate sleep is a major factor in human error, at least as important as drugs, alcohol and equipment failure." Other research suggests that sleep loss contributes to everything from drug abuse to poor grades in school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Drowsy America | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...show. Some reconsideration is coming from movement leaders, like Anne Wilson Schaef, author of When Society Becomes an Addict and Co-Dependence: Misunderstood, Mistreated. She now calls the term outdated and argues that it should be modernized with a new concept of relationship -- sex, love or romance -- addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control, rejects the idea of addiction as a disease and questions the A.A. 12-step model's effectiveness. He charges, "We no longer have a moral basis on which to disapprove of, or respond to, misbehavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MELODY BEATTIE: Taking Care of Herself | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...national malaise." The current economic slump -- not yet officially recognized as a recession + -- threatens to be particularly divisive because of the increasing disparity between haves and have-nots. "In the 1930s, everyone was in the same boat and knew other people were suffering too," observes Val Farmer, a clinical psychologist and syndicated columnist from South Dakota. "The current problems affect people so unevenly that they don't pull together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Is The Country in a Depression? | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Psychologists say economic losses are no different from other kinds of losses. Homeowners have more than capital tied up in their homes; when their assets decline in a real estate slump, so does their sense of self-worth. People who have lost their jobs experience anger, denial and a need to grieve, just as they would if they had lost a loved one. This is especially true of the solid, stable employee who has worked in one place for many years. "That person has a mental contract," says Maury Elvekrog, a management psychologist in Birmingham, Mich. "Even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Is The Country in a Depression? | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

Attitude more than actual events determines how individuals respond to a financial setback. Joseph Cassius, a clinical psychologist from Memphis, catalogs people's reactions according to their personality type. A person whose early family life was marked by chaotic dislocations such as divorce, he says, will see a recession as a catastrophic event that could destroy him. Individuals with dependent personalities who lose their jobs may feel abandoned and show their frustration by, for instance, voting against the party in power. Those who usually feel in control of every situation may be especially stunned by unexpected economic setbacks. "The perfectionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Is The Country in a Depression? | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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