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John Cumming has retired as Clinical Prefessor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and from various positions with the Mental Health Branch of the R. C. Department of Health. He still acts as a past time member of a quality control group of the Greater Vancouver Mental Health Service. Together with Elaine Cumming he is the author of Ego and Milieu, 1962, Atherton.
I would like to thank my wife, Elaine, for her help in developing and writing this account and also Maureen Whyte, Roger Neill and Ralph Buckley for bringing me up to date about the activities of the three Teams described here. I could not have written it without them.
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Cumming, J. The community as milieu—A memoir. Community Ment Health J 26, 15–25 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00752674
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