The author provides an introduction to managed mental health care, reviews the concerns of practitioners, and speculates on the implications of managed care for humanistic psychotherapy. Humanistic practitioners are urged to become involved in psychology's efforts to respond to managed care while the health care system is still in flux.

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In this article, social identity theory is used to explore the disparate perceptions of Blacks and Whites regarding the O. J. Simpson case. In social identity theory, the desire to view one's own social group positively is seen as a primary motivation underlying causal attributions for disturbing social events. This work suggests that racially polarized judgments of the O. J. Simpson trial may be related to (a) perceptions of the nature of status boundaries between Blacks and Whites in American society; (b) the relative importance of social identity; and (c) the degree to which the out‐group is seen to pose a threat to the in‐group's objective interests and identity concerns. Theoretical and empirical work in social identity theory is discussed.