G.E. Zuriff

In the following viewpoint, G.E. Zuriff asserts that the Americans with Disabilities Act should not be used to accommodate employees with disruptive personalities. According to Zuriff, treating people with personality disorders on par with those who have physical disabilities would be costly to society and unfair to employers and coworkers. He concludes that employees who display character traits such as chronic lateness and poor tempers should be held morally responsible for their behavior. Zuriff is a professor of psychology at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and a clinical psychologist in the medical department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Zuriff, how many mood disorders are listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
2. How...