IN 1941 the problem of rapid psychiatric screening at the military induction center was of major concern.1 At that time2 it was suggested that there would be a day of reckoning and that a follow-up study would be the only means by which those endeavors could be evaluated scientifically.
Although problems of wartime mobilization are now past, it is important that one examine critically the efficacy of rapid clinical interviews in predicting adjustments. The practicing psychiatrist occasionally is expected to make a quick decision of this nature. Industry and educational systems likewise may demand rapid screening examinations to eliminate the unfit and the potentially unfit.
FOLLOW-UP STUDY
The purpose of this study is to examine the subsequent military careers of two extreme groups of men inducted into the Army in early 1941. A successful adjustment was predicted for one group; the other, containing likely failures and borderline candidates,