Department of Health, Division of Student Mental Hygiene, Yale University, records 1926-1969

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Department of Health, Division of Student Mental Hygiene, Yale University, records 1926-1969

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The records consist of administrative records, correspondence, conference and committee proceedings, drafts of articles, financial records, personnel records, research files, reports, subject files, and statistical files documenting the activities and projects of the Division of Student Mental Hygiene, Department of University Health, Yale University. Among the projects documented are the "Survey of Mental Health Services in Colleges" by psychiatrist Alice F. Raymond, which studied the state of psychiatric services offered in universities and colleges in the northeastern United States; and war related projects, which studied the effects of military service on Yale and Harvard men and the identification and suitability of homosexuals, psychoneurotics, and psychopaths in the military. The bulk of the records originate from the administration of Clements Collard Fry.

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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The Student Mental Hygiene Division of the Department of University Health was established at Yale in 1925 under President James Rowland Angell. The division began as a consulting body under Dr. Arthur Ruggles, in an effort to provide mental health and psychological services to Yale students, and found its more formal existence after 1930. Led by Dr. Clements Collard Fry, the office functioned to serve the needs of Yale students and faculty, assist the New Haven community, and was a leading advo...