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• Archive: Description:Psychotherapy practice, as we know it today, was born in World War II.
• Dr. Cummings was there, working with paratroopers in combat, and he has been a psychotherapist and mental health activist in the 60 years since.
• He wrote the first prepaid psychotherapy insurance benefit in the late 1950s and demonstrated that psychotherapy should be part of all health insurance.
• He has been in the forefront as an active participant in psychotherapy's achievements, setbacks and hopes for the future.
• This address will highlight the 60 years of psychotherapy's evolution through the life of one of its leaders.Educational Objectives:To describe how third-party reimbursement for psychotherapy was won.To describe how these lessons form psychology and social work history may serve in psychotherapy's future economic battles.