Description
Offers remedies to correct the ongoing decline of the field.
Addresses the anti-business bias that has contributed to training programs that ignore the economic realities of running a business.
Argues for viewing psychotherapy as a health profession.
Table of Contents
Preface: The 50-minute Hour in a Nanosecond Era. Foreword: Our Founders Were Economically Savvy. Blunder 1: We Successors are Economic Illiterates. Blunder 2: We Turned Our Charismatic Leaders into Gurus. Blunder 3: Don’t Worry, Managed Care is a Passing Fad. Blunder 4: We are Not a Healthcare Profession. Blunder 5: At War with Ourselves: Failure of the Profession to Own its Training. Blunder 6: Our Anti-business Bias, an Inadvertent Vow of Poverty. Blunder 7: Our Public Relations: A Disaster or Just a Fiasco? Blunder 8: Political Correctness: We No Longer Speak as a Science and Profession. Blunder 9: Creating Patients Where There are None. Blunder 10: Diversity Fiddles While Practice Burns. Blunder 11: RxP: Is this Our Sole Economic Thrust? Afterword: Hope for a Profession of Endearing Losers.
