Description
Today's workplace is littered with emotional landmines that can derail even the most successful fast-trackers. More and more career professionals today say they are dissatisfied with what work is bringing to their lives. Detachment, boredom, and anger are common complaints. Working harder doesn't help. Many try to buy their way to happiness through rampant consumerism; others turn to drugs and alcohol for escape. Either way, they are left feeling even emptier and more out of control. Work can, quite literally, drive people crazy.
Most therapists and analysts would look to childhood to explain these conflicts. But in MODERN MADNESS, psychologist Douglas ESS LaBier shows how trying to fit into today's highly competitive and power-driven corporations is causing these and many other problems for the new generation of careerists. Based on a landmark seven-year study that examined the emotional lives of young professionals, LaBier shows that a range of conflicts-from mild feelings of self-betrayal due to constant compromise, to acute symptoms of anxiety, depression, and even violence-are generated by working within today's large organizations.
