PSYCHIC DETERMINISM : AN OUTMODED CONCEPT? : Editor, The American Journal of Psychiatry:

Lawrence FriedmanAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 116, Number 12

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1118

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1. It is not yet clear what conclusions we may draw from the Indeterminacy Principle of physics in regard to causality or determinism.

2. We must explain why many thinkers hang on to the concepts of causality and determinism by factors of sufficient weight to account for the tenacity with which they hold on.

3. Determinism, as it is commonly thought of, has not as yet been expressed in non-causal terms, and causality or its proxies still appear to be essential concepts in scientific thought.

4. Attempts to make the question of determinism an empirical one have not been successful.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 116 • Number 12 • June 1960

Pages: 1118 - 1121

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Published in print: June 1960

Published online: 1 April 2006

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Lawrence Friedman

United States Naval Hospital, Navy No. 3923, F.P.O. San Francisco, Calif.

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PSYCHIC DETERMINISM : AN OUTMODED CONCEPT? : Editor, The American Journal of Psychiatry:

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