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...most of the colleges that have realized this need the psychiatrist gives lectures in mental hygiene and acts as consultant for all sorts of student perplexities. Frequently he works under the department of health and has the complete cooperation of that department. At Yale all students receive thorough physical examinations and intelligence tests when they enter. So when a student consults Dr. Ruggles, whether he comes of his own accord or is sent by a member of the Faculty, he is preceded by the records of his physical condition and of his mental equipment...
...time," yet, because he worked inefficiently, has been doing poor work. Perhaps there have been sleepless nights that resulted in bad temper, indigestion and poor marks. Money troubles, obscure fears, estrangement between parents, tangled love affairs, black depressions, all of these and many more are laid before the psychiatrist in his capacity of consulting physician...
...pioneer in this effort to treat the mental and emotional ills of students is said to have been Dr. Stewart Paton of Princeton, author of a celebrated book, "Human Behavior." An able psychiatrist, he realized the students' need of expert advice and offered his services as consultant...
...Milton Harrington of Dartmouth, consulting psychiatrist and lecturer in mental hygiene, believes with Dr. Paton that the social value of the work is even more important than its individual aspect. He is interested in men as prospective members of society, and feels that psychiatry can render a great service in teaching men to order their lives and their living; to work consciously for the kind of a society they want to live...
...Department of Psychology and the psychiatrist are working together, the one to find out how student minds work, the other to apply that knowledge so that sick mind may be healed and taught to work in the most effective...