Dear colleague,

We invite you to join us in our initiative. As you know there will be a Congress of Psychology (it takes place every four years) on 23-27 July 2000 in Stockholm.

Send your greeting to the participants of the Congress or send an electronic letter from your computer with the text applied from the Initiative Centre of the Society for General and Theoretical Psychology to the address of the XXVII Congress of Psychology : [email protected] and [email protected] and to the address of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) [email protected]

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You can also send your greeting to the XXVII Congress of Psychology to the site SGTP by e-mail [email protected] . It will be accepted in the electronic text form and without any changes published in the chapter "Greetings to the XXVII Congress of Psychology". You can express your mind on any subject, for instance, how you imagine psychology in the future, express your wishes to the elite of psychological science that will meet during the XXVII Congress of psychology in Stockholm.

So, every psychologist will have the opportunity to express his or her mind about what interests him (or her) in our science, how he (or she) imagines the psychology etc.

This collection greetings will be published in the electronic form on the site http://www.ap.org.ru/eng/greetings.htm This site you can also easily get through http://www.apa.org.ru

Point out any information you want about yourself and remember about the text of your greeting. The text without author will be also accepted. Information: SGTP site is visited by 40 - 680 psychologists a day from all the world.

That is the greeting test:

Greeting to the participants of the XXVII International Congress pf Psychology from SGTP.

We are greeting the most imposing meeting of our human cognition branch i.e. the psychology.

The humankind is asking questions - what the human being? Psychology as a science answers this age-long question. Does the humankind understand itself? What role does the psychology play in the human self-cognition? At the beginning of the third millennium the humankind is in the age of healthy youth. Who knows when the period of its grown-up being, of its experienced wisdom will come. Maybe the humankind will stay as inexperienced youth a with the consciousness full with arrogant delusions, but without definite reference points and plans for the future and full of energy? The future is obscurity. The role of the psychology as a science is to help the humankind and every particular person to understand himself. This role is very significant and noble. The purpose of psychology is to teach the humankind and to give the humankind the knowledge about what to do with oneself, how to manage with this tremendous amount of knowledge, to teach filtering the essence of knowledge and applying it in everyday life, how to live with oneself in peace, how not to lose oneself, how to create oneself and to be torn from oneself, how to be good with the other people.

That is only psychology that solves a lot of everyday problems and it's only psychology that will help a particular person and the whole humankind . Psychology will help to cope with stresses (and the probability of them is increasing) more effectively in every its realizations. Psychology will show possible ways of getting self-trusting, to help a person to choose his believes freely.

We wish you success in the researching the endless and terribly complicated subject of our science.

Let the belief into the endless possibilities of cognition, into the triumph of the scientific spirit accompany your way in the science, let your life in the science accompany with the flow of productive ideas.

Society for General and Theoretical Psychology,

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