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The author of Telepathy and Medical Psychology introduces a Psi questionnaire to be used in research or for psychiatric interviews of two 'psychic' personality types. These 'psychic' personality types are persons who claim in good faith to be prone to recurrent telepathic, precognitive, or clairvoyant experiences and who fall into one of two classes: 1. The 'percipients' who usually claim to possess peculiar intuitive gifts, to have unfailing 'hunches', and a particular flair for judging people. They are susceptible to telepathic experiences on the receiving end. 2. The 'agents' who are people who act on the spur of the moment, are sure of what they want to do, and are able to do so without doubt or scruple. They are outgoing, aggressive, good mixers, and apt to act as leaders. They may claim to influence people's minds.
The degree of psychopathology in which these claimed phenomena occur obviously extends to the frankly psychotic. Ehrenwald claims that the agent type occurs among many successful psychotherapists. He warns that emotionally charged therapeutic expectations and wishes 'get through' to the patient only when they have first been curbed by an attitude of self-restraint and self-denial springing from the realization that complete passivity may yield better results than action.