ABSTRACT
Training models for the practice-oriented professional specialties within psychologists discipline have to reflect these realities, whether that training takes place in traditional departments of psychology within universities or in freestanding professional schools. The theme that seems to have almost spontaneously emerged for the conference on graduate training is the issue of centrifugal versus centripetal tendencies in psychology. Whether psychology is a unitary discipline with a strong central core or a series of relatively independent areas is a question that has implications not only for graduate training but also for the American Psychological Association as an organization and for psychology as a whole. Human experimental psychologists desert to the emerging discipline of cognitive science; physiological psychologists go happily to departments of biology and neuroscience; industrial/organizational psychologists are snapped up by business schools; and psychopathologists find their home in medical schools.
