 Formal institutions both cultivated and oppressed psychology in the India-Asia region (Lawson, 2007, p. 439).Turbulent and shaky are good words to describe the political atmosphere that these regions endured, which of course was reflected in the field of psychology.The "lack of intellectual infrastructure as a result of scarce financial resources" (Lawson, 2007, p. 439) was most certainly felt by specific areas, which in turn led to "impoverished sociocultural context and centralized government control of resources" (Lawson, 2007, p. 440).