I. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- Science, practice, and policy : an introduction to the history of psychology and the National Institute of Mental Health / Wade E. Pickren -- Reflections on psychology and the National Institute of Mental Health / Stanley F. Schneider -- II. NIMH SUPPORT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative psychology : a case study of development of support for basic research by a federal agency with an applied mission, 1948-1963 / Donald A. Dewsbury -- The research grants program of the National Institute of Mental Health and the golden age of American academic psychology / Charles E. Rice -- Psychotherapy research and the National Institute of Mental Health, 1948-1980 / Rachael I. Rosner -- III. TRAINING PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR SCIENCE AND PRACTICE -- The historical context for National Institute of Mental Health support of American Psychological Association training and accreditation efforts / Ingrid G. Farreras -- Creating a profession : the National Institute of Mental Health and the training of psychologists, 1946-1954 / David B. Baker, Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. -- IV. PSYCHOLOGISTS ON SITE: PRACTICE AND COMMUNITY -- Services at the National Institute of Mental Health's Mental Health Study Center of Prince George's County, Maryland / Milton F. Shore, F. Vincent Mannino -- The National Institute of Mental Health and the founding of the field of community psychology / James G. Kelly -- National mental health policy and the community mental health centers, 1963-1981 / James W. Stockdill -- Prevention of mental disorders / George W. Albee