ABSTRACT
Training in psychology takes place at multiple levels in the educational system—precollege, undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral. Discussions of graduate education, without regard for the entire educational context of which it is a part, artificially separates it from the continuum of relevant educational experiences that shape the knowledge base of psychologists. The discipline of psychology has changed dramatically since the Miami Conference held in 1958, which was the last conference that covered the full range of issues in graduate education in psychology. The pervasive philosophical issues undergirding education and training in psychology may best be expressed as tensions within the field rather than as dichotomies and are addressed as part of several of the other conference issues. Experiential components should be included in psychologists’ curriculum whenever possible, at all levels, as a way to make psychology education more interesting and more understandable.
