Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first primarily a center for personality research. However, in 1946 the Veterans' Administration, faced with thousands of returning shell-shocked G.I.s began to fund graduate programs in university psychology departments to train non-medical psychotherapists to cope with the needs of these veterans. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) added more money for these clinical training programs beginning in the 1950s. These Federal grants allowed Harvard to expand the Plympton Clinic into a full-fledged program in research and clinical training in abnormal psychology...
...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...
...second purpose distinguished CP3 from traditional clinical training programs, including Harvard's old program. White wanted CP3 to train people to provide mental health care to the majority of Americans who cannot afford the time and expense of one-to-one psychotherapy. He saw CP3 graduates as workers and administrators in public clinical settings, such as community mental health centers, mental hospitals, schools, and churches. He wrote in his report, "Our proposals contain a radical change of emphasis in training, with the aim of preparing men and women to provide for previously neglected populations, to meet new expectations, to assume...
Kilson's distress at the delayed publication was in no way lessened by either the Bulletin's concern about factual errors in his piece, or its editors' wish to honor the black students' request to answer the serious charges he leveled at their intellectual ability, mental stability and basic integrity. This is significant, for Kilson has justified his attacks on blacks by the desire to stimulate debate on a serious issue. Evidently, he prefers that discussion be non-adversarial, thus facilitating his practice of altering the facts to fit his arguments. It is a phenomenon that, regrettably, is far from...
...Brown Committee seized upon an appropriate analogy--the role of the scientist in the University. Just as the experimental laboratory work of the scientist had become academically respectable, so artistic experimentation would become respectable. Art would be rid of its "mental inferiority" because it would be made intellectual. Professors would teach students design theory in a series of controlled experiments in the studio...