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A letter to the editor by Dr Killinger was published in today's Globe and Mail –
Entitlement
I have noted that none of the recent articles in The Globe and Mail relating to the serious consequences of prominent leaders losing their integrity and destroying their reputations and careers has mentioned the important connection between workaholism and the loss of integrity.
During the very predictable breakdown that this addition to power and control follows, there are two significant changes – the loss of feelings and the loss of integrity – that produce serious changes in character and acting-out behaviours. The idealist Dr. Jekyll turns into a narcissistic, self-absorbed Mr. Hyde.
It is important to address the dangers inherent in work-related obsessions that lead to the entitlement issues that encourage such deviant behaviour. Power can be used to do good works, or for self-serving, selfish purposes.
Barbara Killinger, PhD, clinical psychologist, Toronto
Dr Killinger, a leading authority on workaholism, will be a featured speaker at the annual conference of the Canadian Council of Christian Charities in September, 2011.
To arrange an interview with Dr Killinger contact –
Jacqui Davis, MQUP Publicist jacqueline.davis@mcgill.ca
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