Psychotherapy's Soothsayer: Nick Cummings Foretells Your Future

Simon, Richard, Psychotherapy Networker

Suddenly, sometime in the mid-1980s, as the managed care revolution raged around them, therapists emerged as if from a dream to find that terms like "heath care delivery systems," "covered lives" and "capitated health plans" had gone from being mind-numbing policyspeak to urgent pocketbook issues. As an entire profession nervously scanned the horizon, anyone at a national conference who had something vaguely credible to say about whether the Golden Age of Private Practice was truly coming to an end was able to attract a capacity crowd. Since that time, as the sense of imminent crisis has gradually subsided, most therapists have grown much less …

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Publication information: Article title: Psychotherapy's Soothsayer: Nick Cummings Foretells Your Future. Contributors: Simon, Richard - Author. Magazine title: Psychotherapy Networker. Volume: 25. Issue: 4 Publication date: July/August 2001. Page number: Not available. © Psychotherapy Networker, Inc. Mar/Apr 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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