PEP | Article - The Neuropsychiatric Selection of Recruits: Lieut. Comdr. C. L. Wittson (M. C.), U.S.N.R., Lieut. Comdr. H. I. Harris (M. C.), U.S.N.R., Lieut. W. A. Hunt, H—V(S), U.S.N.R., Lieut. Comdr. P. S. Solomon (M.C.), U.S.N.R., and Lieut. (J. G.) M. M. Jackson, H—V(S), U.S.N.R. Amer. J. of Psychiatry, XCIX, 1943, pp. 639–650.

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Abstract

The authors describe procedures used by the Navy in detecting and eliminating neuropsychiatric recruits. The method which they discuss was the one utilized by the Navy at the time when all the enlistments were on a voluntary basis, prior to the assignment of new recruits to the Navy by the induction boards.

The examinations were done during the period when the men were stationed at the Newport Naval Training Station, prior to their joining the fleet. The average examination lasted about three minutes. Men who appeared to be problems were watched for three weeks, and meanwhile data about them were

PEP | Article - The Neuropsychiatric Selection of Recruits: Lieut. Comdr. C. L. Wittson (M. C.), U.S.N.R., Lieut. Comdr. H. I. Harris (M. C.), U.S.N.R., Lieut. W. A. Hunt, H—V(S), U.S.N.R., Lieut. Comdr. P. S. Solomon (M.C.), U.S.N.R., and Lieut. (J. G.) M. M. Jackson, H—V(S), U.S.N.R. Amer. J. of Psychiatry, XCIX, 1943, pp. 639–650. - Kasanin, J.