Groups the studies whose central finding bears on the diagnosis, treatment or assessment of mental illness and psychological distress. Belongs here: Facilitated Communication Studies, Learned Helplessness Experiments and the Rosenhan Experiment, each concerned with how clinical diagnosis and treatment can succeed or fail. A study of a normal-range social or cognitive process, even one with clinical implications, is filed under the branch it primarily investigates.
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The field is generally considered to have begun in 1896 with the opening of the first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania by Lightner Witmer.
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