Nicholas Cummings

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Nicholas Andrew Cummings (July 25, 1924 – June 8, 2020) was an American psychologist and author. He was born in Salinas, California.

Cummings was Chief of Mental Health with the Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization (1959–1979) and founding president of the California School of Professional Psychology (1970).[1] In 1979, Cummings was elected president of the American Psychological Association.

In 1994, he co-founded with his wife the Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Foundation.[2]

Cummings died on June 8, 2020 in Reno, Nevada at the age of 95.[3]

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  1. "Former APA President Dr. Nicholas Cummings Describes his Work with SSA Clients". National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  2. "The Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Foundation". Archived from the original on 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  3. Nicholas A. Cummings obituary