Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology -- 2. Psychological Determinism and Human Rationality: A Psychologist's Reactions to Professor Karl Popper's "Of Clouds and Clocks" -- 3. The Determinism-Freedom and Body-Mind Problems -- 4. Psychological Determinism or Chance: Configural Cerebral Autoselection as a Tertium Quid -- 5. A Most Peculiar Paradox -- 6. The Concept of Emergence -- 7. The Compleat Autocerebroscopist: A Thought-Experiment on Professor Feigl's Mind-Body Identity Thesis -- 8. On a Distinction between Hypothetical Constructs and Intervening Variables -- 9. Psychopathology and Purpose -- 10. Some Methodological Reflections on the Difficulties of Psychoanalytic Research -- 11. Subjectivity in Psychoanalytic Inference: The Nagging Persistence of Wilhelm Fliess's Achensee Question -- 12. The Virtues of M'Naghten -- 13. On the Justifications for Civil Commitment -- 14. Psychology and the Criminal Law -- 15. Law and the Fireside Inductions: Some Reflections of a Clinical Psychologist -- 16. The Insanity Defense -- 17. Compatibility of Science and ESP -- 18. Precognitive Telepathy I: On the Possibility of Distinguishing It Experimentally from Psychokinesis -- 19. Precognitive Telepathy II: Some Neurophysiological Conjectures and Metaphysical Speculations -- Acknowledgments -- Publications of P. E. Meehl -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.