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...what worries employers, especially small-business owners without human-resources departments or staff attorneys, is that one worker's run-of-the-mill bad attitude may be another's debilitating schizophrenia. "This is fraught with undesirable pitfalls," says Don Livingston, a Washington lawyer who is former general counsel at the EEOC. "It calls on employers to make enigmatic distinctions between personality traits and personality disorders. Mental-health professionals often find this an impossible task, and now it's being put before factory supervisors." Henry Saveth, an attorney at Foster Higgins, which represents leading corporations in employment disputes, is concerned that...
Dopamine, like most biologically important molecules, must be kept within strict bounds. Too little dopamine in certain areas of the brain triggers the tremors and paralysis of Parkinson's disease. Too much causes the hallucinations and bizarre thoughts of schizophrenia. A breakthrough in addiction research came in 1975, when psychologists Roy Wise and Robert Yokel at Concordia University in Montreal reported on the remarkable behavior of some drug-addicted rats. One day the animals were placidly dispensing cocaine and amphetamines to themselves by pressing a lever attached to their cages. The next they were angrily banging at the lever like...
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer's childhood memories of his father Charles are bitterly divided. The earliest and fondest ones are of his dad's gentle counsel during nightly walks with the dog. But as Nathaniel grew older, Charles, a promising sociology professor, became ill with paranoid schizophrenia. The boy was terrified by his father's delusions that CIA agents and Nathaniel's mother had "enslaved" his mind. Charles left home in 1981 when...
...Wittgenstein. "The letters seemed strange and alienating," recalls Lachenmeyer, then a student at the University of Chicago. "Now I've learned what a remarkable exercise in self-control they were." Because during this period his father's illness was clearly getting worse. When Lachenmeyer incautiously asked about his schizophrenia in a 1989 letter, Charles responded by calling him "an arrogant little s___ who needs to have his behind warmed...
Just so you know, your visit is not as unexpected as it seems. All juniors on campus received highly-detailed mailings some weeks ago alerting us to the fact. Also, your frequent phone calls about hotel and restaurant reservations and that damn schizophrenia lecture to be given this morning kept the impending weekend at the front of our "to do" lists...