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Workplace mistreatment may affect observers as strongly as victims

Work Life

Those studies explored a number of different forms of workplace mistreatment ranging from incivility to abusive supervision and sexual harassment. Some of those studies took part in actual workplaces, while others examined mistreatment in tightly controlled laboratory settings.

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The most surprising workplace trends of 2025 (so far)

Work Life

The companies clinging to control are losing talent and time. It is a shift from controlling the narrative to coauthoring it. Learn how to supervise, audit, and co-create with these systems. We don’t care if someone is building a pitch deck in a café in London or reviewing press targets from their lake house in Wisconsin.

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Therapists, Neutrality Is No Longer an Option — Politics Is Tearing Us Apart

Mad in America

Often, one partner upholds values shaped by justice, empathy, and collective care, while the other clings to traditionalist, individualist ideals grounded in hierarchy and control. If we’re not interrogating that — in our education, supervision, and sessions — then we are just teaching people how to survive inside a burning house.

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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

I would add that this narrative also legitimizes other forms of control, such as psychopharmacological sedation and broader mechanisms of state violence and institutional surveillance. This trend parallels the troubling increase in licensed but inadequately trained therapists.

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Why male corporate leaders and billionaires need financial therapy

Work Life

Research shows that people often project their unconscious anxieties onto markets , experiencing them as mirrors of competence, failure, or control. Emerging research in organizational psychology shows that financial stress is linked to abusive supervision, particularly among men who feel a loss of control.

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5 Common Problems that Surface Among Remote Teams and How Leaders Can Solve Them

Success

Instead of relying on constant supervision, Lewis advocates for empowering decision-making. More control over when and where we work should reduce stress, but it often does the opposite. Can your team consistently deliver without needing you to check in? Lewis asks. If not, the issue isnt remote work. Lewis explains.

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Everything About Us Without Us

Mad in America

Evans made a request to Oregons State Board of Control to approve the use of lobotomies at OSH. He informed the Board of Control that it consists of trephining the skull in the temporal frontal region. Between 1973 and 1981, after a decline in the number of lobotomies, the Board of Control still approved five of six lobotomy requests.