The Underdeveloped Side

In Jungian psychology, there are four sides to the human self, Intuitive, Sensate, Feeler, and Thinker. Many people are dominant in one or two of these sides, are somewhat accomplished in another side, but have an underdeveloped side which they are awkward and uncomfortable in. This means that many people have misunderstandings and cease to get along well because they are interacting with someone using this underdeveloped side with which they are so uncomfortable. This also means that this underdeveloped side almost controls what we do and don’t do, because we make decisions all the time based upon what we want to deal with and what we find difficult and awkward to do.

This underdeveloped side, whichever side it might be, determines where we are most and least comfortable and it determines how much of our thinking and emotions gets put into various activities and ways of interacting with other people. It also determines why various people may or may not resort to drug abuse or alcoholism. Many times, when someone feels alone or as if they cannot connect with the people around them, it is because of their underdeveloped side. In response, they may begin abusing substances as a way of coping with things.

It is important to evaluate your employees in order to determine how far many of them have gone in this process. What happens when someone is so isolated from aspects of themselves which are helpful that they begin to use due to psychological pain? What happens when a simple changing around of coworkers is all that is needed in order to bring people with similar typologies together? Isn’t it important to try to achieve success in this manner?

Of course, not all business owners have time to study typologies, but this would be beneficial if they did. In the meantime, you can determine where potential pain lies by where abuse lies. You can determine this through the use of employee drug & alcohol testing. Onsite drug and alcohol screening is meant to help you to see who is clean and who is not. It is simple and effective, while also protecting the assets of your company from potential liability. Most importantly, you always have time for testing if you are using onsite drug and alcohol screening, because Mediscreen makes it easy and cost effective. 

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