Abstract
Abraham Lincoln told the story about an asylum patient who claimed to be George Washington. The doctors were not sure how to proceed because they wanted to dispel the delusion without seeming to criticize the patient’s choice of so admirable a role model. Fortunately, a week later he claimed that he was Napoleon—an easier syndrome to treat, or so they presumed. But to be certain, one of the doctors asked the patient if he was still Washington. He replied: “Yes, certainly, but that was by a different mother.”
Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
—Friedrich Nietzche
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Robert L. Chapman, ed., Roget’s International Thesaurus, 5th ed. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992), pp. xi-xiii, xvii-xviii.
Robert M. Goldenson, The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970 ), p. 375.
Ibid., p. 1281.
The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine p. 678.
Jane Healy, Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don’t Think (New York: Simon Schuster, 1991). The 20 percent decrease in creativity corresponds almost exactly with the decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) results.
The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine p. 678.
See Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1994); and the Pocket Guide to the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders (World Health Organization, Geneva), published by the American Psychiatric Press. In the latter (p. 257), a new category (F688) has been set up to cover character disorders not elsewhere specified, though the other disorders described are clearly or at least primarily mental disorders. Whether the intent is to create a bin for a few odd disorders or to open Pandora’s box to encompass the whole of human behavior is a matter of conjecture, but the potential for it is there.
For example, consider the ongoing debate between followers of Freud versus Carl Jung. The latter has its own network called Friends of Jung.
Goldenson, The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior p. 1153.
Ibid., pp. 919–923.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1992, vol. 9, p. 495.
Karl Menninger, M.D., Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique ( New York: Harper, 1964 ), pp. 75–76.
Ibid., p. 75.
Sir William Osier, A Way of Life ( New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1958 ), p. 246.
Lincoln, Abraham,“ Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 14 (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1959), pp. 141–143. This article first appeared in 1929.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Great Books of the Western World, vol. 48, p. 136 [2nd ed., 1990, vol. 48, p. 84].
Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War p. 24.
Joannie M. Schrof, “A lens on matrimony/’ U.S. News World Report, February 21,1994, pp. 66–69, summarizing John Gottman’s Why Marriages Succeed or Fail.
Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (New York: Harper, 1974). The original experiments were reported in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1963, vol. 67, pp. 317–378. Milgram’s experiments were replicated worldwide, including one (without Milgram’s prior knowledge) that used animals and actual voltages.
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom ( New York: Doubleday, 1926 ), p. 1.
Bruce Clarke and John G. Hill, Art and Requirements of Command, Generalship Study, Technical Report 1–191, vol. II, prepared for the Office of the Director of Special Studies, Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of the Army, April 1967.
Philip Kopper, Colonial Williamsburg (New York: Harry W. Abrams, Inc., 1986), pp. 136–155ff.
Ibid., p. 164.
Adrienne Koch and William Peden, eds., The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Modern Library, 1944), p. 280 [from Notes on Virginia].
Paul Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, The Scar of Race (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1993 ).
“Oprah’s poverty program stalls,” Chicago Tribune, August 27, 1996, pp. 1–16.
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1997 George M. Hall
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Hall, G.M. (1997). The Psyche, Marriage, and Organizational Behavior. In: The Ingenious Mind of Nature. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6020-7_15
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6020-7_15
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-306-45571-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-4899-6020-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive