Specialization as a cause for OCD, for a statement I tried hard not to agree with initially when reading this book. Davis' account on why he feels specialists are prone to having obsessive habits, never made much sense until I read chapter three. Golton's behavior explained by himself as well as David presented a first hand account on not why, but how specialists' behavior exhibits obsessive traits. Chapter three page 92, Golton describes his "necessity of obtaining a multitude of exact measurements relating to every measurable faculty of the body or mind, for two generations at least, on which to theorise". He goes on to admit, whenever he met people he would classify them based on how he perceived them. Usually on a scale of three classes ' good medium, and bad'. He would also classify women into three categories attractive, indifferent, and repellent. His obsessive behaviors became apart of him as well as his daily activities. He was monitoring the two rows of people and how many times they would figit in their seats. He even went as far to mathematically determine why the Africans posterior was uniquely larger than most women. His obsessive behavior in turn made him the scientist who he was, which society benefited from. This is and may be the case for many doctors, lawyers, psychologists, etc. Their crafts become them. In my major, you have to eat, breath, and sleep through information in order to retain it to memory, so much that the slightest problem I may encounter I assume its the cause of some factor I've learned in school. I'm not saying that I am a specialist, but I deeply understand the uncontrolled obsessive thoughts and actions one may have engaging in their specialties.
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