Neuropsychiatrists in the Army

The Army Medical Corps last fortnight got its first batch of graduates from a school unique in military history. After a month's training, 30 doctors emerged from the new School of Military Neuropsychiatry at Lawson General Hospital, near Atlanta. The second class of 35 immediately matriculated.

General purpose of the school is to help the Army cope with the problem of mental illness (TIME, Jan. 4), the chief reason for Army medical discharges. Specific purpose of the school is to adapt civilian neuropsychiatrists to military practice by 1) brushing up those who are predominantly neurologists on psychiatry, and vice versa; 2) teaching the doctors how to keep their heads above Army paper work; 3) indoctrinating the men with the Army's attitude toward all patients--get them back on active duty or discharge them.

Brigadier General William Lloyd Sheep, only neuropsychiatrist ever to become a general officer, is head of the school. The faculty includes such crack men as Lieut. Colonel Moses Ralph Kaufman, who before the war had a big Boston practice in psychoanalysis; Major Joseph Fetterman, who used to teach at Western Reserve, Cleveland; Major William Everts of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. The first class included graduates of Frankfurt and Heidelberg, staff men from state hospitals, Rockefeller fellows.

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