ABSTRACT

Each of the contributors to this volume was asked to speculate about the future of psychology and particularly about the changes that might be expected in psychology during the next twenty years. It is perhaps a testimonial to the perilous nature of our times and to the self-doubts characteristic of contemporary psychology that none of these prognostications are given with much assurance. Rather, one finds in the separate chapters accounts of the changes that the contributors hope will come. Many of these hopes are expressed with respect to particular research projects, and the reader can find them in the separate chapters. What we are attempting in this EPILOGUE is a summary of the contributors’ grander hopes and expectations for psychology in general.