A STUDY OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC REJECTEES

Abstract

During the war years, under the auspices of the National Research Council, Dr. Clements Fry 1 collected and studied data on the performance in the military of men from Yale and Harvard universities who were treated for psychiatric difficulties while students at these institutions. The majority of these men served as officers. The diagnoses made while they were students included the gamut from psychoneurosis and sexual perversion to psychosis. These studies revealed considerable incongruity between predicted and actual failure rates in the military service. A great number who turned in creditable records would never have been recommended as acceptable for military in the judgment of the psychiatrist who saw these men or surveyed their records. As a result of our interest in happened to potential 'NP' failures inducted into the service and in an effort to determine what could be expected of these men, a pilot study