Psychology Aweigh!: A History of Clinical Psychology in the United States Navy, 1900–1988

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1. The Beginnings of Clinical Psychology

I. The Evolution of Clinical Psychology in the U.S. Navy

2. Before World War I
3. World War I
4. Between the Wars
5. World War II
6. Enter the Medical Service Corps
7. The Korean War
8. The Vietnam Era
9. The Training Program at Bethesda
10. Women in Clinical Psychology and the Armed Forces
11. The Chief Clinical Psychologists, 1944–1988
12. The Civilian Consultants

II. Recruit Screening and Evaluation

13. Early Standards for Recruits
14. The Introduction of Binet-Type Testing
15. Recruit Screening in World War I
16. Recruit Screening in World War II
17. The Search for an Actuarial (Statistical) Approach to Screening
18. The Marginal Recruit

III. The Practice of Clinical Psychology in the U.S. Navy—Then and Now

19. Introduction
20. Administration and Management
21. Direct Mental Health Services
    • Hospitals and Clinics
    • The Issue of Sexuality
    • Health Psychology
    • Alcohol and Drug Abuse
    • Crisis and Postdisaster Intervention
22. Duty with the Operating Forces–Not Just in the Navy, But of the Navy
    • The U.S. Naval Academy
    • The Fleet Marine Forces
    • The Submarine Service
    • The Naval Air Service
    • The SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) Program
    • The SEALs (Sea–Air–Land Teams)
    • Forensic Psychology
    • The Marine Security Battalion
23. Research

Epilogue

24. The Personal World of a Navy Clinical Psychologist
25. The Future of Clinical Psychology in the U.S. Navy

References

Appendixes and Indexes

1. Ranks in the U.S. Navy
2. Uniformed Navy Clinical Psychologists on Extended Active Duty, Medical Service Corps, 1948—1988
3. Suggestions for the Management of Psychological Services in the U.S. Navy

Name and Author Index

Subject Index

List of Tables

1. Marine Corps Recruit Screening Tests, Binet-Type, 1915
2. Comparison of Recruits' Test Scores With Performance Record, Marine Corps, 1915
3. Service Records of Follow-Up Group of Marine Corps Recruits, 1915
4. Comparison of Service Records of Suspect Group and Normal Control Group, Navy Recruit Screening Program, 1941–1944
5. Comparison of Psychiatric Discharge Rates of Recruits at Three Naval Training Stations, 1943
6. Comparison of Intelligence Test Scores With Year-End Academic Standing, Freshmen, U.S. Naval Academy, 1922–1923

List of Figures

1. Navy Recruit Screening Card, Brief History, 1919
2. Navy Recruit Screening Form, Reverse Side of Preliminary Psychiatric Test Sheet, List of "Character Descriptives," 1919
3. Navy Recruit Screening Form, Neurological Examination, 1919
4. Navy Recruit Screening Card, Life History, 1917–1918