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.

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However German MEP Elmar Brok, who is the rapporteur on links between EU institutions and national parliaments said MPs would continue to have scrutiny.

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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.

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