ABSTRACT
The professional's integration is a crucial factor in whether his practice is ethical. The principle will clearly include the classical rule of abstinence. However, the principle extends beyond the rule of abstinence, since it must also apply to the unconscious functioning in the professional and cannot be voiced merely as a conscious rule. The professional's own integration affects his capacity to use his knowledge beneficently. One could call it his professional integrity, which depends on his propensity for interpersonal spreading of himself. Professional Ethics: Practices are ethical in which the professional minimizes the distortions of his own identity; and those are unethical in which he colludes with his client to distort both their personalities in an interpersonal spreading. Professional relationships based on this redistribution of knowing will result in the expert enhancing the depletion of the personality of his more vulnerable clients.
