Some things we know in clinical psychology

Abstract

"One of the dangers of any science is that of becoming so absorbed in frontier problems that the substantial background of that science becomes neglected… . Thus in clinical psychology, preoccupation with the use of mental tests has certainly led us away from the larger questions of mental diagnosis which these tests are designed to clarify… . In the business of advancing the frontiers of clinical psychology so much attention is now being paid to debatable issues that we are losing sight of established knowledge… . This address aims to reaffirm some of the things we know in this field rather than to discuss the uncertainties which beset us in advancing our profession." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)