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I am careful; he is perfectionistic; they are obsessional. While psychiatrists and laypeople talk in terms of clinical types, we know all behaviors fall on a continuum from normal and adaptive through to pathological and maladaptive. Often it’s the context that defines or categorizes what is normal or not.
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Furnham, A. (2008). The Obsessive-Compulsive Manager. In: Management Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227439_47
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