Thank you Mike.
Quote: "the professions of mental health and management,
like physics, may have omitted some steps in their thinking."

The so-called profession of "mental health" has added a new irrational step: that of confusing metaphors with reality. "Mental health" is no more health than a "sick economy" is sick. (See www.szasz.com)

Sure, if you are "careless" with money, or "careless" with your theory-of-reality; your actual "physical health" may suffer. That does not make money or thought a medical issue.

Physicists have omitted looking carefully at what "time" is, perhaps.

I guess the rest of your post is about "the politics of power". Presumably the "hidden messages" you refer to are "hidden agendas", a feature of office politics and power-plays.

Sounds like people caught up in such clashes of agendas could use being alert to the full range of possible interpretations; not denying any phenomenon which also includes not denying skepticism and the possibility of mis-judging the agenda-politics scene.

Let all the data be visible and answers become more visible too I think.

-dolphin