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%PROFESSIONAL COLLUSIONS 760929
Professional collusions are maintained by avoidance
of intimate relationships with persons who are not
professionals. By restricting close friendships to those
who are accepted members of the profession, the
professionals avoid threats to their professional
perspectives. Experts support each other in their basic
presuppositions and attitudes towards non-experts. Being
experts they put distance between themselves and their
clients. Because they are experts they do not expect any
real insights and understanding to be offered to them on
the part of non-experts. Thus non-experts do not merit
their intimate association; they choose their friends
from those of like mind and station in life. Professional
standards thus come to call for an appropriate
professional distance---to insure objectivity and
professional service uncomplicated by personal intimacy
between the professional and the client. The objective-
analytic-technical mode of approach thus dominates
professional relationships; and the professional collusion
calls this good.
Objectivity is an essential aspect of professional
service. So also is subjective identification with those
one seeks to serve an essential aspect of professional
service. Either aspect emphasized to the exclusion of the
other undermines the service. Objectivity without
subjectivity makes service mechanical and meaningless;
such service is powerless to engender hope and meaning.
Subjectivity without objectivity makes service mushy and
impractical; such service is powerless to cope with
practical problems and questions of justice. The
arrogance of claiming that the complimentary mode of
approach is without value is destructive; as are all
exclusive claims to omniscience, omnipotence, and other
qualities traditionally ascribed to God, because humans
cannot cope with having them. Professions which claim
such qualities are trapped in a collusion which is
idolatrous.
The transcendence of professional collusions is
facilitated by communication between participants in the
collusions and those who are not trapped in the
collusions. This transcendence happens when participants
in the collusion take seriously what non-participants
consider to be most important, as revealed in their
healthy spending of their time and energy.
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