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Art, Government and Economy

The paper entitled Art, Government and Economy (6), is a “think piece” I wrote at the request of the Dulwich Group, who were publishing a collection called “Bedtime Stories for Tired Therapists.” I let myself go in this tirade against the political scene of 1994, when I was mainly in private practice and feeling the effect that the medical insurance industry was having on my profession – turning it into a part of medicine that insurance companies didn’t want to pay for. Hilary Clinton had just failed to introduce European single-payer ideas, and Rudolf Giuliani, the mayor of New York, was proposing to sell the water supply to save money. I was sorely missing my role as an employee of the State Office of Mental Health.

The article is included here with permission from the publisher.