ABSTRACT
Psychologists are relatively few in number for the present population of Western Germany by comparison with the United States. Not only are psychologists a small group but they are, moreover, quite limited in influence. Despite important scientific contributions of individual German psychologists in the past, psychology appears to be struggling to establish itself in the universities as a discipline independent of philosophy. In non-academic positions in the fields of "applied psychology," not very many psychologists are employed though conditions may be somewhat different in the southern portion of Germany in which the American influence is greater. Psychologists play a very minor role in the German judicial process. Clinical psychologists are functioning primarily as testers employing a variety of individual and group instruments. The discussion of basic concepts that took place served to underscore the differences that remain in the thinking of trained German professionals and a "pick-up" Anglo-American team of clinicians.
