International Directory Of Psychologists

Divided geographically by country. Each section includes includes societies/associations of psychology in a given country, as well as the historical development and current state of psychology, the current major research programs, and a brief account of academic training in psychology and the legal status of psychology as a profession in each country. Finally, each country entry includes a directory of psychologists within its borders, including address and area of specialization.

In the past several decades, psychology has grown so rapidly in many countries that no one has been able to keep up-to-date on more than a handful of countries. To be sure, the highly developed countries of North America, Western Europe, Ja pan, and Australia have generally had well-known national psychological societies for most of this century, and consider able information about their universities and institutes has been published at one time or another. But even in these more highly developed countries, the rapid changes of recent years are not well known. In any event, what information has been published is scattered so widely that it is hardly accessible when needed. Still less well known is the growth of psychology in the developing countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and at least for Western readers, even the modem nations of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are relatively unknown. Only recently have most Western psychologists become aware of the fact that psychology as they know it is provincial. With more than half of the world's highly trained psychologists in Canada and the United States, which together devote far more of their national resources to psychological research than is true of any other countries in the world, it is not surprising that the North American journals, psychological associations, institutes, clinics, and other manifestations of psychology have completely domi nated the field, at least until recently.

Approximately 17,000 psychologists representing 100 countries throughout the world except the United States. Is not restricted to only better known professionals; includes information on all psychologists who answered the soliciting questionnaire. Geographical arrangement by countries. Each entry gives personal, educational, and career information as well as special areas of interest. Indexes of national/international associations, countries.

Designed to be a companion for any research psychologist wishing to commmunicate with colleagues throughout the world. It includes the addresses, fax and phone numbers of all academic, governmental and commercial institutions where significant psychological research is being conducted.; Organized by country, it covers applied and related areas such as clinical psychology, work psychology, artificial intelligence, psychopharmacology as well as mainstream psychology.; It is available as a paperback, and also on microcomputer diskette in a format which could provide a convenient mailing list for conference organizers.