Nicholas A. Cummings, Ph.D., Sc.D., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology, and President, Foundation for Behavioral Health at the University of Nevada at Reno. Dr. Cummings is a Past-President of the American Psychological Association. William T. O'Donohue, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in Nevada. He is a full professor of clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a member of the Association for the Advancement for Behavior Therapy. He has edited over thirty books, co-authored three books, and published more than one hundred articles in scholarly journals.
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.
