Records of the Department of University Health, Division of Student Mental Hygiene, Yale University, 1926-1969 (inclusive), 1930-1955 (bulk).

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Records of the Department of University Health, Division of Student Mental Hygiene, Yale University, 1926-1969 (inclusive), 1930-1955 (bulk).

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 Library

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