Groups the theories centrally concerned with the diagnosis, treatment or clinical understanding of mental illness and psychological distress. Belongs here: Beck's Cognitive Theory of Depression, a clinical model of how thought patterns sustain depressive illness. A general theory of cognition or personality that has clinical applications but is not itself a theory of illness or treatment is filed under the branch it primarily belongs to.
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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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