Neurotic symptoms are not only ubiquitous but often have an adaptive function. There is evidence that the number of working days lost through sickness has increased over recent years and psychiatric illness may constitute an increasingly important fraction. The gap between sickness benefit (plus supplements) and the unskilled wage packet may be so small as to encourge people not to wrk, yet Brown (1954) has suggested that money is not the most important incentive. Work should bring status, ego-esteem and rewarding social relationships. The factory may come to be regarded more as a social organization than as an assembly line.
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