Identifying Risks and Developing Solutions. Some psychiatrists in the field doubt that any reliable judgment can be made without interviewing the subject. Dr. Renato Alarcon, chief of psychiatric services at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, is chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on the Misuses and Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists. Speaking for himself, he says it is possible to tell if a worker is likely to become violent on the job, but not with 100 percent accuracy. That would give the individual the option to appeal and have his or her own evaluator.
Unionists are skeptical of the objectivity of the psychiatrists the companies use.
He'll ask early life questions, late life questions, sexual questions, whatever he wants to ask, and then write it up and give it to the boss or law firm. Any doctor worth his salt will find something wrong, or even make up something, and if you don't answer one of his questions, then you are uncooperative and you can be fired for that, too. What they are trying to do is put a person out on a psychiatric disability. If they succeed, you would never work again in your lifetime. While doing such exams for federal employees at the Public Health Service's outpatient clinic in Washington, D.C., in 1978, he discovered that many of the people sent to him were either whistleblowers or people who had a personality clash with the boss.