Re: psycho-babble
Reid Fairburn (cr_king_at_seanet.com)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 20:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
At 07:09 PM 4/28/98 -0300, you wrote:
>
>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
>------------------------------
>Hugo Leimann
>Civil Aviation and Military CRM Advisor
>Argentine Aviation Authority
>http://www.house.com.ar/users/hf_crm
>
======Well Hugo, to the neophyte it sounds like they are all playing ball in
the left field...all by themselves. And I would say the rules of their game
sure are strange. Never heard such babble!
Reid Fairburn
Creative Kingdom, Inc.
cr_king_at_seanet.com
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