Professions in Public Service

Abstract

close cooperation and understanding between mental health professionals and government is essential. Mental health professionals are beginning to respond, perhaps mindful of John Gardner's observation that a subtle exit from the grimy problems of the day is to immerse yourself so deeply in a specialized professional field that the larger community virtually ceases to exist. This is a particularly good way out because the rewards of specialization are very great today, so that you may become rich and famous while you are ignoring the nation's problems.8