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Forecasting the Incidence of Neurosis in Officers of the Army and the Navy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. Mayer-Gross ,
J. N. P. Moore ,
Patrick Slater ,
H. N. Davy  and
P. Turquet
W. Mayer-Gross
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
J. N. P. Moore
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
Patrick Slater
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
H. N. Davy
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
P. Turquet
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
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The most important contribution the psychiatrist could make to the selection of officer candidates or of applicants for comparable leading or managerial positions would be the exclusion of potential neurotics. The Report on the Work of Psychologists and Psychiatrists in the services acknowledges and commends the contribution made by psychiatrists to the selection of officers in the Army; but evidence has not yet been published to enable the extent of their particular contribution to the efficiency of the whole procedure to be assessed in measured terms. Other services have not followed the example of the Army. The Admiralty and Civil Service Selection Boards, which were created after the War Office Selection Boards, and have adapted many features of the Army procedure for their own requirements, have decided against employing psychiatrists for this purpose; and the extent to which the War Office Selection Boards make use of psychiatric services for selection has been reduced. The effectiveness of existing psychiatric methods for this kind of work may thus be felt still open to some doubt.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 95 , Issue 398 , January 1949 , pp. 80 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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