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Sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment (SH) is a continuing, chronic occupational health problem in organizations and work environments. First addressed in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology through a 1998 Special Section on Sexual Harassment, we return to this consequential issue. If the goal is to reduce SH in organizations, and we believe that it should be, then a key question is whether we have made ...

Paradigm shift to address drug resistant tuberculosis in people living with HIV needed, and needed now.

People living with HIV have a higher risk of multi-drug resistant (MDR) (Wells et al. 2007; Dubrovina et al. 2008; WHO 2008b) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (Gandhi et al. 2006) with increased mortality, and greatly reduced survival time. Only 6% (less than 30,000) of the half million estimated incident MDR cases were diagnosed and notified globally by the end of 2007. Fifty-...

Factitious sexual harassment.

Among those claims that trivialize true sexual harassment is a type that the author has come to recognize as factitious (i.e., prompted by the lure of victim status). Women who file factitious sexual harassment cases usually voice their allegations in a very convincing manner and, in the presence of contradictory findings, present a diagnostic challenge. Forensic clinicians must be able to reco...

Sexual Harassment and Sadomasochism

Although many women experience harmful behaviors that fi t the legal defi nition of sexual harassment, very few ever label their experiences as such. I explore how psychological ambivalence expressed as sadomasochism may account for some of this gap. Following Lynn Chancer, I argue that certain structural circumstances characteristic of highly stratifi ed bureaucratic organizations may promote ...