Shall We Continue to Train Clinical Psychologists for Second-String Jobs? 1Prepared for the Ninth International Congress of Psychology, New Haven, Connecticut, September, 1929.

The following facts are well known: 1. The American Psychological Association twelve years ago established a section of clinical psychology whose fundamental aim was to "advance professional standards in the field of clinical psychology." In furtherance of this aim, the section adopted as the minimal requirement for membership, the Ph.D. degree in various branches of psychology, and the publication or the preparation for publication of "a contribution of importance to the literature of mental tests or of clinical psychology." 2. Because of the recommendations of leading clinical psychologists and because of the example set by a few institutions of higher learning, the curriculum for clinical psychologists has gradually been expanded to include not only the major branches of psychology, such as normal, abnormal, clinical, criminal, experimental, genetic, child, educational, industrial, and social, but also group mental and educational tests, educational diagnosis, the education of deviating types, mental hygiene, psychoanalysis, psychopathology, mental deficiency and disease, nervous disorders, and frequently other branches of medicine.