ABSTRACT
When Mayo came to Harvard many organizations wanted him as a public speaker, lecturer, and adviser on the application of psychology to industrial, social, and family problems. Mayo was often asked for his opinions on child and family psychology. In his teaching of psychology, Mayo’s topics included elementary physiology and psychopathology. Clinical psychology was Mayo’s topic in an entertaining address he gave in New York to the First Colloquium in Personality Investigation. In 1927–1928 Mayo’s department received forty-seven cases; of the forty-two on which some clinical comments were made, twenty-six had clear symptoms and seven showed less serious indications of obsessional neurosis. Mayo explained the imbalance by using his thesis on the social consequences of rapid industrializaton. Before such industrialization, although travel and intellectual growth were restricted, people lived a full communal life and served a necessary social function. Other topics on which Mayo lectured and wrote included sin, eugenics, and the business depression.
