Description: Foreword, C.Anthony Anderson and Keith Gunderson; theoretical risks and tabular asterisks - Sir Karl, Sir Ronald and the slow progress of soft psychology; psychological determinism and human rationality - a psychologist's reactions to Professor Karl Poppers' "Of Clouds and Clocks"; the determinism - freedom and the mind body problems, Herbert Feigl and Meehl; psychological determinism or chance - configural cerebral autoselection as a tertium quid; a most peculiar paradox; the complete autocerebroscopist - a thought-experiment on Professor Feigl's mind-body identity thesis; on a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables, Kenneth MacCorquodale and Meehl; psychopathology and purpose; some methodological reflections on the difficulties of psychoanalytic research; subjectivity in psychoanalytic interference - the nagging persistence of Wilhelm Fliess's achensee question; the virtues of M'Naghten, Joseph M.Livermore and Meehl; on the justifications for civil commitment, Joseph M.Livermore et al; psychology and the criminal law; law and the fireside inductions - some reflections of a clinical psychologist; the insanity defense; compatibility of science and ESP; precognitive telephthy I - on the possibility of distinguishing it from psychokinesis; precognitive telepathy II - some neurophysiological conjectures and metaphysical speculations.

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