ABSTRACT
The penultimate discussion session brought back into play the question of professional identity and how we form that identity: how we come to understand what we are and what we should do as professionals. Michael Davis had suggested that we should consider codes of ethics valuable because they represent a set of minimum standards that can be agreed upon and have a low degree of arbitrariness. Katerina Rüedi, on the other hand, responded that codes of conduct still contain certain agendas, and in some ways might be narrower than we would want them to be. Identity formation, she asserted, goes on in ways that we do not adequately understand, particularly as it has to do with the inclusion of certain groups within the profession. Now, she felt that the profession needed to be more self-reflexive, needing to examine its own assumptions more closely.
