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Businessmen and Mental Illness: The foundation of a new charity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ian Clark
Ian Clark*
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County Hospital, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (formerly Consultant Psychiatrist, Cheadle Royal Hospital) and Medical Adviser, STEER Organisation
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The popular perception of the business world is that dog eats dog, with the executive expecting material rewards to compensate for high levels of stress and risk taking. If you fail—too bad—you had it good for a while. A caricature of course, but like most caricatures it contains a kernel of truth. Sympathy for business colleagues who do fail is not a facility prized by competitively striving senior managers, viz Robert Maxwell's statements on the launch of the second London newspaper, “It's the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest”.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 11 , November 1987 , pp. 366 - 369
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