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PSYCHIC DETERMINISM : AN OUTMODED CONCEPT? Editor, The American Journal of Psychiatry:
Lawrence Friedman
Am J Psychiatry 1960;116:1118-1121.
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United States Naval Hospital, Navy No. 3923, F.P.O. San Francisco, Calif.
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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.Abstract Teaser
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