Thinking ahead doesn’t happen with magical thinkers. They only look at what’s directly ahead of them rather than the big picture, which can cause them to make mistakes that can spell the end ...

November 07, 2024 Magical thinking is common and often harmless – but it can be problematic, too Crossing fingers and similar superstitious behaviors are mostly benign.

There are several different types of personality disorders, broadly categorized into cluster A, B, and C disorders. Examples include paranoid, antisocial, and dependent personality disorders. An ...

I read Joan Didion’s memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking ”, earlier this summer. I’ve always been moved by Didion’s writing, so when people told me it was about the year in her life after her ...

Magical thinking about guns is a kind of fetishism, which sees guns as totems instilled with meaning beyond their basic material parts. It’s a variant of what Karl Marx called “commodity ...