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tion is that advanced students, academic or medical, may be brought 

 into direct contact with research problems in psychopathology and 

 means thus provided for the carrying on of much additional investiga- 

 tion. Under the present circumstances the clinical psychologist might 

 often occupy his time very effectively with the combination of research 

 and the training of others in its methods and problems; while from a 

 practical standpoint it also tends to retain him longer in the work 

 to do so. 



The optimum of teaching in medical psychology involves, therefore, 

 a unification of instruction and research. It deals, on the one hand, 

 with the clinically useful procedures of experiment; on the other, with 

 the broader problems of personality and psychogenesis. Its contempo- 

 rary sources are, on the one hand, the university laboratory, on the 

 other, hospital clinic, and it is best served by the experience of both. 

 Throughout, it has been apparent that the subject matter of psycho- 

 logical medicine is one of particular appeal to students specializing in 

 mental diseases, and should for the present be elective. It would be 

 rather unwise to now seek the required study of psychology in medical 

 schools, as psychology is not yet in a position to make sufficiently defi- 

 nite contributions of general value. Only through the encouragement 

 of research, and its direction through proper teaching, are its great and 

 obvious deficiencies to be supplied, and the endeavor has been to indi- 

 cate how psychology and medicine can best meet upon grounds of 

 mutual helpfulness towards this end. 



