ABSTRACT
Entrance into college introduces many new problems to the high-school graduate. In our society the period spent in college is coincident with that in which whole gamut of late adolescent adjustments must be made. For most of the persons college represents the last period of dependency on their parents and on childhood patterns before they assume full adult roles in relation to occupation, marriage, and civic and religious participation in their communities. In rare instances, when the opportunity for closer personal contacts are at hand, fixations may in time distress both instructor and student. It often happens that neither is aware of the mental mechanisms involved in these situations, and finds in the end that personal attachments have become burdensome. The medical and health service, including mental-hygiene experts, who should be available for voluntary consultation and prepared to diagnose and advise students sent to them by administrative deans, by faculty counselors, or by parents, friends, or others.
