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3 pages in length. Like so many other industries where products and services are being homogenized to the point of becoming a valueless commodity, Yalom (2003) worries about the upcoming generation of mental health professionals whose essential training resources are quickly dwindling under the weight of economic cutbacks, insurance games and the ongoing pressure to dangerously speed up the therapeutic process. No additional sources cited.
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(2003) worries about the upcoming generation of mental health professionals whose essential training resources are quickly dwindling under the weight of economic cutbacks, insurance games and the ongoing pressure to
dangerously speed up the therapeutic process. What further concerns Yalom (2003) as he aspires to pass along the wisdom he has gained throughout his own career is that patients
are not receiving the quality of care they 1) need and 2) are entitled to get. An economically-driven health care system mandates a radical modification in psychological treatment and
psychotherapy is now obliged to be streamlined - that is, above all, inexpensive and, perforce, brief, superficial, and insubstantial...It seems certain that the present generation of psychiatric clinicians, skilled in
both dynamic psychotherapy and in pharmacological treatment, is an endangered species (Yalom, 2003, p. xiv). The wide scope of health care problems has not left the psychiatric field untouched;
as a result, Yalom is right to be troubled by what has transpired since he first entered the industry, wondering whether or not therapists and patients are destined to endure
perfunctory sessions whereby the doctor is incapable of helping and the client is powerless to (re)gain mental stability. In a country where a wide range of mental illnesses plague
a considerable percentage of the general population, the authors apprehension about the legacy his generation will leave behind is both valid and timely. Being of an era where psychologists
and psychiatrists were trained to be empathetic, interactive and accessible; insurance companies did not dictate what treatment was necessary; and sessions were orchestrated with the intention of sidestepping useless superficiality,
Yalom (2003) laments how "offering guidance and inspiration to the next generation of psychotherapists is exceedingly problematic today because our field is in such crises" (p. xiv). One of the
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