ABSTRACT
Psychology has reached a crucial choice point in its development. Clinical psychologist is pressing the limits of growth imposed by their present structure. Indeed, developmental distortions have been occurring for a long time. Like the ancient Chinese habit of binding women's feet, the distortion of their field, particularly of clinical psychology, has come to be regarded by many as beautiful and proper. Clinical psychologist see attempts to perpetuate and institutionalize the distortions by splitting off a separate profession of applied clinical psychology from its home in a discipline rooted in scientific and philosophic origins. Clinical psychology students are guests in other peoples' agencies and hospitals. The pattern of training that was set by the Veterans Administration Clinical Psychology Program in 1945 has nurtured and strengthened psychology more than anything else. Psychology in the VA is strong and viable and it continues to be a major source of support for our graduate students in clinical psychology.
