Brok said the United States tends to have a culture more oriented toward shame and individualism, and an ethic of finding solutions to particular problems.
However German MEP Elmar Brok, who is the rapporteur on links between EU institutions and national parliaments said MPs would continue to have scrutiny.
The United States also had European immigration during this time, and psychoanalysis was also "the thing to do" in America in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, said Albert Brok, a psychologist who practices in New York but grew up in Argentina.