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THE CELEBRATION OF THE 750TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF BERLIN IS AN OCCASION TO REFLECT ON THE PRESENT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE, THE ROLE OF NATO IN UNDERWRITING THE SECURITY OF THE AREA, AND THE CODIFICATION OF EXISTING BORDER REGULATIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST BERLIN.

Psychotherapy was an invention of European modernity, but as the 20th century unfolded, and we trace how it crossed national and continental borders, its goals and the particular techniques by which it operated become harder to pin down. This introduction briefly draws together the historical literature on psychotherapy in Europe, asking comparative questions about the role of location and culture, and networks of transmission and transformation. It introduces the six articles in this special issue on Greece, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Russia, Britain and Sweden as well as its parallel special issue of History of Psychology on 'Psychotherapy in the Americas'. It traces what these articles tell us about how therapeutic developments were entangled with the dramatic, and often traumatic, political events across the continent: in the wake of the Second World War, the emergence of Communist and authoritarian regimes, the establishment of welfare states and the advance of neoliberalism.

IN RESPONSE TO GROWING CONCERN ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED ITS INTENTION TO REDUCE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS 25-30 PERCENT BY THE YEAR 2005. WHEN THE POLICY PROCESS THAT LED THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT TO ADOPT SUCH AN AMBITIOUS GOAL IS EXAMINED, IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT THE CORPORATIST TYPES OF ARRANGEMENTS FOUND IN GERMANY HAVE PROVIDED AN INSTITUTIONAL ARENA THAT ENABLED A CONSENSUS TO COALESCE AROUND THE VIEW THAT CLIMATE CHANGE WAS A SERIOUS THREAT THAT WARRANTED CONCERTED ACTION. THE POLICY PROCESS THAT HELPED FORGE THE POLITICAL CONSENSUS ON GLOBAL WARMING, HOWEVER, HAS NOT BEEN IMMUNE TO CHANGES IN THE BROADER POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT THAT HAVE MADE AGREEMENT ON SPECIFIC ACTIONS MORE DIFFICULT. THUS, WHETHER GERMANY WILL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE ITS ANNOUNCED TARGET REMAINS IN QUESTION.