What was and continues to be the reason for the decline and continuing descent of clinical psychology? The authors posit that the profession blundered and has not adapted to the profound changes that have taken place in American society over the past 40 years. Psychotheraphy practices is based on a 50 minute hour, yet mental health treatment must operate at a much briefer, more efficient pace. Clinicians ignore the findings of scientific research for effective treatments and favor the overblown pronouncemnets of gurus who preach without substance. Clinicians failed to adapt their practices to the needs of the healthcare industry and do not recognize that psychotherapy is a health profession. An anti-business bias has contributed to training programs that ignore the economic realities of running a practice. The failure to seccure prescriptions privileges, the invention of diagnoses, and political correctness are among the other blunders that pull the profession away from its primary mission-mental health treatment-and contribute to the low esteem in which psychologists are held. The authors enumerate and discuss the Eleven Blunders that Cripple Psychotherapy in America and offer remedies to correct the ongoing decline of the field. | Eleven Blunders that Cripple Psychotherapy in America by Nicholas A. Cummings, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters