Abstract
When people read my calling card they ask first, What is a clinical anthropologist? If they are anthropologists, they ask What is the need for another new specialty? The answer to the former question will become apparent. To answer the latter, I have sought to legitimize clinical anthropology through the precedent set by early culture and personality studies. Those works both justify historically the need for another specialty and accord the subfield the status it merits as an organic development within he discipline. The date I choose as the starting point for this development is 1944, when two papers appeared. These are Clyde Kluckhohn's "The Influence of Psychiatry on Anthropology during the Past One Hundred Years," (in Hall's One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry) and another paper by Kluckhohn in The American Anthropologist (Volume 46, pp 1-29).
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