"Nicholas Cummings and Janet Cummings have produced a guide valuable to both the student and the experienced practitioner. They address the loss of faith in psychotherapy - in the the managed care industry, in health care, and in the general public. They draw on current empirical data on 'best available practices,' and call for a thoughtful integration of psychotherapeutic approaches. If the Cummings' vision prevails, future psychotherapy will be cognitive, behavioral, dynamic, strategic, humanistic, and psycho-pharmacologic. The therapist of the future will provide focused, time-sensitive, and cost-effective interventions, while remaining dedicated to the well-being of the total person. The patient of the future will encounter an integrated system of behavioral and medical care, involving a partnership of behavioral health providers, physicians and nurses in 'one house' and 'one system.'"
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"...a thoughtful, engaging and incisive book about intermittent psychotherapy over the life cycle...a collection of interesting cases of time-sensitive therapy...I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in psychotherapy, from the newest graduate student to the most experienced clinician".
Simon H. Budman, Ph.D., President, Innovative Training Systems, Inc.; Faculty, Harvard Medical School
"For those psychotherapists who cannot see a positive future for their art in the age of managed care and evidence-based practice, I would prescribe a simple tonic: read this book".
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., Foundation Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno
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