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...nothing sacred any more? Is there no area of American life beyond taint? Last week, for the first time in the 36-year history of the All-American Soap Box Derby, the winner was disqualified for cheating. James H. Gronen, 14, of Boulder, Colo., forfeited his first-place trophy and a $7,500 college scholarship when X rays disclosed that his car had been rigged to unfair advantage...
According to Norman Watt, professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a former lecturer in the clinical psychology program at Harvard, the Social Relations Department with its strong research emphasis opposed the Boulder ideal. Despite the addition of practical training, Harvard's graduate program continued the Plympton Street Clinic's stress on research. Students did supervised fieldwork in therapy centers such as the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Fernald State School, but they were trained mainly as scientists...
...program's attempt to follow the Boulder model fell victim to conflicting external demands. Although it was moderately successful in integrating research and practice, it still failed to satisfy either camp. The Social Relations Department wanted more research. The APA and the NIMH, which accredited and partially funded the program, wanted more clinical work...
Lindzey correctly identifies the conflict at Harvard between pure research and practical application, but this does not invalidate the Boulder model. Despite the problems of combining research and practice at Harvard, it is still vital for a good abnormal personality psychologist to have a solid command of both. Consequently, it is important for an abnormal personality program to offer training in both theory and practice. The clinical psychology program was the victim of a squeeze between research and professional training. The conflicting and arbitrary bureaucratic demands of the University on one side and of the APA and the NIMH...
...essential truth of the Boulder model, that research and clinical experience in abnormal psychology go hand in hand, is still valid. But administrative failure, combined with a powerful research bias, has sabotaged every effort to integrate theory and practice in abnormal personality study at Harvard. Once again clinical psychology at Harvard is dead. Yet the need so clearly identified by the Boulder model remains...