Clinical Psychologists Across the Years: The Division of Clinical Psychology From 1960 to 2003  John C. Norcross, Christie P. Karpiak, and Shannon O. Santoro University of Scranton For more than 40 years researchers have studied the members of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division of Clinical Psy- chology to obtain information about their demographic characteristics, educational experiences, theoretical orientations, employment settings, pro- fessional activities, publication histories, and career satisfactions. We sum- marize the results from the most recent study ( N = 694, 46% return rate) in the historical context of the previous findings, dating back to 1960. We provide both contemporary and historical portraits of American clinical psychology. Among the most notable trends are a steady increase in female psychologists, a decline in psychological assessment in general and pro- jective testing in particular, the modal eclectic/integrative orientation being rivaled by the cognitive orientation, a pattern of high career satisfaction, and continued enthusiasm for the Boulder model. © 2005 Wiley Period- icals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 61: 1467–1483, 2005. Keywords: clinical psychology; psychologists; theoretical orientations; employment; career satisfaction Clinical psychology has a lengthy and noble tradition of examining its own members and organizations. In the United States, E. Lowell Kelly initiated this tradition with a seminal study in 1960 of the entire membership of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12). He mailed a questionnaire to the 2,372 members of Division 12, receiving 1,024 responses; one sixth of them were from An earlier version of this article was presented in April 2004 at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC. The authors gratefully acknowledge the participation of the 694 psychologists, the financial support of the University of Scranton, the technical assistance of Ms. Kelly M. Lister, and the editorial contribution of Dr. Thomas P. Hogan to this study. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: John C. Norcross, Department of Psychology, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510– 4596; e-mail: norcross@scranton.edu. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 61(12), 1467–1483 (2005) © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20135