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Smith College founds the Smith Psychiatric Training School.

1918

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The school focuses on teaching its female students to work with veterans on addressing the trauma they experienced during the war.

At this point in time, it is generally perceived as unseemly for a young woman to practice psychiatry and, in particular, to work with veterans.