psycho-babble

Hugo Oscar Leimann Patt (hleimann_at_houseware.com.ar)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:09:59 -0300


Hi gang,
I would like (actually I need) to know what do you think about this issue,
and eventually your wise advise.
Since Argentina is perhaps the country with more psychologists per
inhabitants ;), CRM here is also "psycho-oriented".
But last week in the Civil Aviation CRM Advisory Office we received the CRM
syllabus from one of our principal airlines which cought us off guard.

In the Introduction the authors state, under the title "Ideological Frame"
(sic), concepts like "accidents are meaningfull acts, unconscious
constructs, just like lapsus linguae, etc... They occurr in personal crisis
contexts... Normally the individual remain unaware of the hidden meaning of
these events". And so on.

These authors also have written about the Challanger accident, describing it
as a collective organizational suicide...

After this introduction I expected to read something like a strong
recomendation for endless psychoanalysis for all pilots, cabincrew and
dispachers. They propose instead, a group-therapy-like series of seminars,
with a lot of tools for self-evaluation, etc.

I'm rather disoriented, should I accept this program, should I propose some
modification. In the last case, which one.

Thanks in advance for your inputs.

Hugo
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Hugo Leimann
Civil Aviation and Military CRM Advisor
Argentine Aviation Authority
http://www.house.com.ar/users/hf_crm