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Meeting Managed Care: An Identity and Value Crisis for Therapists

The micromanagement of the psychotherapy enterprise by private insurance interests has placed clinicians in new and unfamiliar roles in relation to their patients and to the professional marketplace. The value systems compatible with most managed care organizations are divergent from those held by an earlier generation of mental health professionals.

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