Apes, employment, diagnosis and business psychology

In the film the Planet of the Apes the monkeys (but don't call them
monkeys) are split by type into different roles. The smart orangutan's
are scientists, the gorillas warriors and the chimps...I don't remember
what they were.

So theres a nice analogy for mental health and life and/or employment.
Certain types may fit certain roles or certain people may fit other
people (to extend this to relationships). And by "types" I mean
psychiatric diagnosis.

I haven't read any psychiatric papers about this idea of fitting
diagnosis to role or whatever, i.e. the idea that a certain disorder may
be useful for a certain task or advantage specific activities. But
psychiatric research is at the heart of the idea. There's a theory of a
genetic predisposition to a person who becomes on the schizophrenia
spectrum. A person of this type could, through there environmental
conditioning become schizophrenic or schizotypy or schizotypal or
anything else on schizophrenia spectrum. It was by a guy called Meehl
and he called this pre-state schizotaxia. It hasn't been proved yet and
I think the word has become synonymous with operational defintions of
psychosis risk syndrome however the fundamental concept is interesting.
I wonder if people of this hypothetical type would end up in creative
industries.

The idea of personality type and role has been studied in business
psychology. Myers-Briggs is one system where personality types are
identified and this can be used to find the right person to fit a role.
I should get off my lazy arse and see if there's any psychiatric
research correlating Myers-Briggs or other business psychology measures
with psychiatric measures or diagnoses.

But the application of the business psychology and organisational theory
is very different to the Planet of the Apes. In the film type
"orangutan" were the scientists. They were never ever warriors. The
little bit i remember about how the Myers-Briggs personality types
(Reflectionist, Activist, theorist and pragmatist I htink) fit together
in a team. It's a mix that produces the best results or the appropriate
fitting of a mix of people to the roles within a team, division and
organisation.

So imagine one day when people can put on their employment form,
"depression" and the recruiter will think...hmmmm.....we need a problem
solver for that team. Or "paranoid" and the recruiter thinks fantastic:
we need smart people in our contingency planning team. Or better yet,
upon seeing "depression" the recruiter thinks...hmmm......we've got too
many manic types in that team and a depressive would be perfect to
achieve balance.