Our American future?
PsyBlog [Social Psychology]
PsyBlog [Social Psychology]
Iatrogenic was coined by the Ancient Greeks to describe a doctor whose actions inadvertently harmed the patient, eg bloodletting – it means “caused by the healer”.
Iatrogenics are everywhere – well-intentioned politicians who intervene in something they know nothing about, misguided City planners inadvertently destroying the Flaneur’s urban habitat and new CEO’s changing a Company’s (sometimes apparently dated) core Purpose and Values.
Mr Syed believes CJ’s interventions are classic iatrogenic influences:
- Tactical (Parking the Bus),
- Compositional (Expensive, ill-judged new signings),
- Methodological (obsession with error/risk/learning elimination),
- Psychological (motivating through fear, not inspiration).
