THE CHANGING WORLDS OF EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGY: IMPRESSIONS AND DILEMMAS1

Two interrelated outcomes have emerged after a year's research on the nature of European scientific communication: on a tangible level, this research has led to an extensive analysis of the conditions related to communication and productivity in European psychology (See Krantz, in press, for a report of some initial findings); less concretely, the study has generated many impressions, unanswered questions, and dilemmas about the state of European and American psychology. These more ephemeral outcomes of the research provide the basis of the following discussion.